The Haskell School of Music-From Signals to Symphonies

Yale University.Department of Computer Science.Version 2.4 (February 22, 2012).In the year 2000 I wrote a book called The Haskell School of Expression– Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia [Hud00 ]. In thatbook I used graphics, animation, music, and robotics as a way to motivatelearning how to program, and specifically how to learn functional program-mingusing Haskell, a purely functional programming language. Haskellis quite a bit different from conventional imperative or object-orientedlanguages such as C, C++, Java, C#, and so on. It takes a different mind-setto program in such a language, and appeals to the mathematically inclinedand to those who seek purity and elegance in their programs. AlthoughHaskell was designed over twenty years ago, it has only recently begun tocatch on in a significant way, not just because of its purity and elegance,but because with it you can solve real-world problems quickly and efficiently,and with great economy of code.