View Larger Image	Simon Thompson Addison-Wesley, Paperback, 2nd edition, Published March 1999, 487 pages, ISBN 0201342758
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Building on the strengths of the first edition, the book includes many new and improved features:

• Complete coverage of Haskell 98, the standard version of Haskell which will be stable and supported by implementations for years to come.
• An emphasis on software engineering principles, encouraging a disciplined approach to building reusable libraries of software components.
• Detailed coverage of the Hugs interpreter with an appendix covering other implementations.
• A running case study of pictures emphasizes the built-in functions which appear in the standard prelude and libraries. It is also used to give an early preview of some of the more complex language features, such as high-order functions.
• List comprehensions and the standard functions over lists are covered before recursion.
• Early coverage of polymorphism supporting the "toolkit" approach and encouraging the resuse of built-in functions and types.
• Extensive reference material containing details of further reading in books, journals and on the World Wide Web.
• Accompanying Web Site supporting the book, containing all the program code, further teaching materials and other useful resources.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing functional programming
2. Getting started with Haskell and Hugs
3. Basic types and definitions
4. Designing and writing programs
5. Data types: tuples and lists
6. Programming with lists
7. Defining functions over lists
8. Reasoning about programs
9. Patterns and generalization
10. Functions as values
11. Progam development
12. Type classes
13. Checking types
14. Algebraic types
15. Case study: Huffman codes
16. Abstract data types
17. Lazy programming
18. Programming with actions
19. Program behaviour
20. Conclusion Appendices:
    1. Functional, imperative and OO programming
    2. Glossary
    3. Haskell operators
    4. Understanding programs
    5. Implementations of Haskell
    6. Hugs errors

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    Sep 12, 2006     Ferron Hanes
    This book is essential guide kfor functional programming
    This book is a essential and very good guide for anyone who want to learn the basics of functional programming. I strongly recommend this book for beginners. This books with out a doubt scores a 5 out 5 (5 stars)
    
    
    
    

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