A Gentle Introduction to Haskell, Version 98 (original) (raw)

This is the master HTML version of the Gentle Introduction To Haskell, version 98. Revised June, 2000 by Reuben Thomas.

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Brief Table of Contents.

• Introduction
• Values, Types, and Other Goodies
• Functions
• Case Expressions and Pattern Matching
• Type Classes and Overloading
• Types, Again
• Input/Output
• Standard Haskell Classes
• Monads
• Numbers
• Modules
• Typing Pitfalls
• Arrays
• The Next Stage
• Bibliography
• Complete Table of Contents

All code in this tutorial, with additional commentary, is found in thecode directory packaged with this tutorial. We suggest that you inspect, run, and modify this code as you read the tutorial. This code has been tested on Hugs 98.

Premission is granted to correct, improve, or enhance this document. If you wish to publish updated versions of the tutorial on haskell.org please contact John Peterson.

Copyright (C) 1999 Paul Hudak, John Peterson and Joseph Fasel

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