CSE 505 - Functional Programming

Readings:

Paul Hudak, John Peterson, and Joseph Fasel, "A Gentle Introduction to Haskell 98". Hardcopy was distributed in class, or you can find it at http://haskell.org/tutorial/index.html
For reference, the following book may be useful and is on reserve in the Engineering Library: Simon Thompson, "Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming," Addison-Wesley, 1996. There is also lots of material on the Haskell web site.

Haskell Examples

The file ~borning/haskell/lecture.hs on the instructional machines has a set of examples I'll show in class. You can also view the file on the web here: lecture.hs file.

Lecture Notes

I/O in Purely Functional Languages
Normal vs. Applicative Order Evaluation
Implementation of Functional Languages (these are just if you're interested - we won't cover this material in class, and it won't be on the tests)

Mini-Exercises

Haskell Mini-Exercises (for practice - not to hand in)

Running Haskell

We're using the hugs interpreter, a portable, light-weight implementation of Haskell. It's installed on the instructional linux machines (ceylon, fiji, sumatra, tahiti). The executable is in a standard place (/usr/bin/hugs) so you shouldn't need to do anything with your search path to find it.

Type :? for help; :quit or control-d exits. The man page for hugs lists other commands and options. Also, the file /usr/share/hugs/lib/Prelude.hs (the prelude) has lots of useful examples of Haskell code.

If you want to run Haskell on your own machine instead, you can download implementations of Hugs for any of the standard platforms from the Hugs 98 web page.