rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

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Haskell is cool!
Here are some reasons why.

(This is a Literate Haskell file, so you can load it and then follow
along with the examples by running `ghci whyhaskelliscool.lhs`)


"Pattern matching" syntax for defining functions is cool, letting you
avoid 'if' statements and simply write out the different behaviors of
a function: