Real World Haskell

O'sullivan, Bryan

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This is the book for software developers who want to

learn Haskell and use it to do real work. There are a

number of books on Haskell out there, but they're all

either textbooks or academic books; the textbooks use

Pascal as a language for teaching computer science. There

isn't anything out there that shows you how to use

Haskell to write software that's actually useful. There's

been a significant upsurge of interest in Haskell and

other functional programming languages. It's not clear

what's driving this interest, but one of the factors may

be the importance of concurrent programming and new

computer architectures. The book introduces readers to

the language, but it's a fairly fast and brief tutorial,

rather than a textbook. It pays special attention to real-

world issues like I/O, performance, dealing with external

data, databases, concurrency, and web applications.