Learn Haskell by going through Bartosz Milewski’s youtube lectures.
Lecture 1
In Haskell, you don’t need brackets for function application, so here’s goes the classic hello-world example:
putStrLn "Hello, world!"## Hello, world!This doesn’t look any different to other programming languages, but the mind blowing thing is, putStrLn is actually not causing any side effect. But wait, if it doesn’t cause side effect, how come it can print words onto the screen? Well, it turns out that print takes an argument, “Hello, world!” in this case, and returns an IO () which takes care of the side effecting. That is, the type of putStrLn is String -> IO ().
:t putStrLn## putStrLn :: String -> IO ()The “Hello, world” program we wrote so far is just pure function application, purely functional programming! Wow… I thought the first few lectures would be pretty boring as is the same with learning other languages. I was wrong, now, it looks like I’m learning some new concepts straight way… What is this IO () thing? As far as I know now and I might be wrong, IO is a type constructor, it takes a type argument, () (which means Unit type), and returns back a type of IO monad.
That’s all in terms of the code. And by the way, highly recommend this motivational and philosophical video by Bartosz.