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In this web we are collecting links to various resources and some hint to get you started with Haskell. They should never be taken as the definite answer to all questions. In that case the Haskell website is the place to go.

Important Websites

• The Haskell Wiki: the official site with much more information
• GHC: the glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Reference Material

• Haskell 2010 Language Report: the language definition
• Haskell 98 Grammar
• GHC User Guide: all about using the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and GHCi

API Documentation

• Haskell Hierarchical Libraries: GHC's API documentation. Here's a shortcut to the Prelude.
• ZVON Haskell Library Reference
• Hoogle: An API search engine. You can find functions there by supplying type signatures.
• wxWidgets Doc

Introductory Material

• How to write a Haskell program: documentation on how to set up a build environment, and a quick introduction to various tools
• Cheat Sheet
• Tutorials: more tutorials from the Haskell wiki

Tools, Applications, and Libraries

• HackageDB: This is where all the libraries and application written in Haskell congregate. If you install a package using cabal install this is where it comes from.
• HLint, the Haskell style checker
• Eclipse Plugins
• Haskell mode for Emacs: Programming in Haskell with the Emacs operating system.
• wxHaskell

Books

• Real World Haskell treats many, many practical things for which there is no time in the lectures to cover.
• The online version of "Learn you a Haskell" is a pleasure to read. I contains fewer large examples, bit covers the style of programming and all essential Haskell constructs.

Parallel and Distributed Programming in Haskell

• Simon Marlow recently taught a course on Parallelism and Concurrency in Haskell. Slides, Course Notes and Lab exercises are available.

Interesting and Funny Things

Here is a collection of links I stubled upon in recent years, and which provide either background information, interesting side-tracks, some humourous things, etc. If you want to add to this papge you may send me a link, and I will -If I like it too- add it to this page.

Haskell in relation to other programming languages

• Programming Language Shootout
• About the disadvantages of learning Haskell and Python
• An Early Paper about Functional Programming Languages
• Language "popularity"
• How programming languages influence each other

Embedding other syntaxes in Haskell by (ab)using the class system

• If you prefer to write C programs
• If you prefer to write BASIC programs

Interviews, Video's, etc.

• Bryan O'Sullivan on the Power of Haskell
• Live coding in Haskell (pointed out by Maurits Ariëns Kappers)

For TWIN students

• A proposal for a new Prelude based on well known mathematical structures

Programming style

• The fallacy of premature optimization

Background Information

• Haskell History
• Programming Languages Genealogy
• Haskell survey

Some more Links

• Commercial use of FP: Making money with functional programming
• The programming languages WebLog

Useful/Interesting background reading

• Monad Reader bevat een nuttig artikel over type classes: The Typeclassopedia
• Functional Web programming
• Melissa O'Neill's "The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes"?
• Recent presentation about Cabal