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Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Post by atwebb »

mreiland wrote: post #27
noblethrasher wrote: post #19

The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming. Also, I motion for a black bar.

what is a 'black bar'?

I'm guessing that the default orange header bar would be black.

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Post by cornstalks »

mreiland wrote: post #27
noblethrasher wrote: post #19

The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming. Also, I motion for a black bar.

what is a 'black bar'?

Googling revealed this: "When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect."[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990015

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Post by DanBC »

mreiland wrote: post #27
noblethrasher wrote: post #19

The Haskell School of Expression is a beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that wants to learn Haskell, or to just appreciate functional programming. Also, I motion for a black bar.

what is a 'black bar'?

On HN the top orange[1] bar is sometimes changed to black when someone significant[2] to computing dies.

[1] orange unless you've got enough karma to set it to some other value

[2] significant to computing is not the right phrase here, sorry for clumsiness.

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#36

Post by QuercusMax »

vvpan wrote: post #28
QuercusMax wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started learning it on Tuesday, via learnyouahaskell.com. Half of what makes Haskell impenetrable to a non-Haskellite is the syntax, IMO; now that I'm starting to grok that, it really is quite wonderful. Very sad news indeed.

I dunno... I found actually solving problems in a functional way much harder than the syntax.

I've done enough functional-esque coding in ruby/python/js/java8 that I can generally figure out a functional solution to lots of problems. I have not actually attempted to build any real software with Haskell yet, however; I'm mostly at the toy-program stage.

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

#37

Post by QuercusMax »

coolsunglasses wrote: post #29
eblume wrote: post #3

I just restarted my investigation of Haskell yesterday. This is very sad news. Haskell is a beautiful language, and while I still struggle to write even basic programs in it I can tell that every time I solve an issue I'm having I am becoming a smarter programmer. He will be missed!

I teach Haskell and I'm working on a book http://haskellbook.com/ with my coauthor. We've been testing with reviewers and it's been going pretty well. We've even been testing with my coauthor's 10 year old https://twitter.com/argumatronic/status/593845481140133888 :) My guide for learning Haskell is here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell You can get help in the IRC channel if you'd like as well. I don't reco…

Can you explain why you don't recommend LearnYouAHaskell? I'm genuinely curious.

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

eblume wrote: post #3

I just restarted my investigation of Haskell yesterday. This is very sad news. Haskell is a beautiful language, and while I still struggle to write even basic programs in it I can tell that every time I solve an issue I'm having I am becoming a smarter programmer. He will be missed!

Unfortunate timing for myself, as well. This last week I've been meaning to get back to Haskell.

Sad news.

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Post by coolsunglasses »

QuercusMax wrote: post #37
coolsunglasses wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I teach Haskell and I'm working on a book http://haskellbook.com/ with my coauthor. We've been testing with reviewers and it's been going pretty well. We've even been testing with my coauthor's 10 year old https://twitter.com/argumatronic/status/593845481140133888 :) My guide for learning Haskell is here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell You can get help in the IRC channel if you'd like as well. I don't reco…

Can you explain why you don't recommend LearnYouAHaskell? I'm genuinely curious.

I get asked this and similar a lot, so I have a post outlining the problems we've had with various resources including LYAH: http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.h...

Re: Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died

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Post by killtheliterate »

QuercusMax wrote: post #37
coolsunglasses wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I teach Haskell and I'm working on a book http://haskellbook.com/ with my coauthor. We've been testing with reviewers and it's been going pretty well. We've even been testing with my coauthor's 10 year old https://twitter.com/argumatronic/status/593845481140133888 :) My guide for learning Haskell is here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell You can get help in the IRC channel if you'd like as well. I don't reco…

Can you explain why you don't recommend LearnYouAHaskell? I'm genuinely curious.

He explains in http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.h...
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