Effective Haskell • Rebecca Skinner & Emily Pillmore

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Rebecca Skinner - Author of "Effective Haskell", Lead Software Engineer at Mercury & Member of the Haskell.org Committee
Emily Pillmore - Head of Core Engineering at Kadena & Board Member of the Haskell Foundation
RESOURCES
Rebecca
https://twitter.com/cercerilla
https://www.linkedin.com/in/👩🏻%E2%80%8D💻rebecca-s-b47378b
https://github.com/rebeccaskinner
https://rebeccaskinner.net
https://octodon.social/@cercerilla

Emily
https://twitter.com/yandereidiot
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-pillmore
https://github.com/emilypi
https://mastodon.social/@mlep

DESCRIPTION
Put the power of Haskell to work in your programs, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell daily to get practical work done efficiently. Leverage powerful features like Monad Transformers and Type Families to build useful applications. Realize the benefits of a pure functional language, like protecting your code from side effects. Manage concurrent processes fearlessly. Apply functional techniques to working with databases and building RESTful services. Don’t get bogged down in theory, but learn to employ advanced programming concepts to solve real-world problems. Don’t just learn the syntax, but dive deeply into Haskell as you build efficient, well-tested programs.
* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rebecca Skinner • Effective Haskell
Vitaly Bragilevsky • Haskell in Depth
John Whitington • Haskell from the Very Beginning
James Stanier • Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

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Chapter

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Overview (00:01:59)

3. GHC vs building a system (00:06:56)

4. Laziness in Haskell (00:13:44)

5. A practical perspective on MTL & future explorations (00:19:45)

6. Rebecca's journey through Haskell programming (00:22:41)

7. Embracing failure & the joy of coding (00:32:56)

8. Outro (00:43:44)