Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

摘要

The first thing that you will notice about this book is the clunky how-foreigners-speak-English title. And the second is the clunky illustration style. Of course, the word "clunky" demonstrates either my high-mindedness or my pomposity. Either way, these tropes really got in the way of my taking this book as seriously as it deserved. "Comic" books on programming languages actually have a long pedigree. Kaufman's A FORTRAN Coloring Book has a Dr Seuss-ish feel. I used Alcock's Illustrating Basic (1977) for many years to teach non-specialists with the BBC Microcomputer. In our own noble discipline, Friedman's The Little LISPer (1974) predates both. In turn, this has spawned Friedman and Felleisen's The Little Schemer (1998) and Little MLer (1998).