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Magical Haskell: A Friendly Approach to Modern Functional Programming, Type Theory, and Artificial Intelligence
Discover a unique and fun approach to adopting modern typed functions programming patterns. This book uses playful metaphors and examples to help you learn Haskell through imagination, building on math without relying on imperative crutches or technical complexity. You’ll use math to build completely different Typed Functional patterns from the ground up and understand the link between building Mathematics through Types and constructing Haskell as a programming language.
Intended for working with various applications, especially AI-powered apps, the book gently builds up to what are normally considered complex and difficult concepts all without needing a PhD to understand them. Illustrative explanations will guide you to tackle monads, using monad transformer stacks to structure real programs, foldable and traversable structures, as well as other Type classes. This book will also help you structure programs efficiently and apply your own abstractions to real-life problem domains. Next, you’ll explore exciting advancements in AI, including building with OpenAI APIs, creating a terminal chatbot, adding web functionality, and enhancing with retrieval-augmented generation. Finally, you’ll delve into AI multi-agents and future directions using Arrows abstraction, reinforcing Haskell’s design.
Magical Haskell is a solution for programmers who feel limited by imperative programming languages but are also put off by excessively mathematical approaches.
What You Will Learn
Grasp a solid math foundation without complex technicalities for Types and Typeclasses.
Solve problems via a typed functional approach and understand why it’s superior to what’s available in the imperative language world (“if it compiles, it runs”).
Build your own abstractions to efficiently resolve problems in any given domain.
Develop AI frameworks in Haskell, including chatbots, web functionality, and retrieval-augmented generation.
Who This Book Is For
Haskell programmers of all levels and those interested in Type Theory.
Intended for working with various applications, especially AI-powered apps, the book gently builds up to what are normally considered complex and difficult concepts all without needing a PhD to understand them. Illustrative explanations will guide you to tackle monads, using monad transformer stacks to structure real programs, foldable and traversable structures, as well as other Type classes. This book will also help you structure programs efficiently and apply your own abstractions to real-life problem domains. Next, you’ll explore exciting advancements in AI, including building with OpenAI APIs, creating a terminal chatbot, adding web functionality, and enhancing with retrieval-augmented generation. Finally, you’ll delve into AI multi-agents and future directions using Arrows abstraction, reinforcing Haskell’s design.
Magical Haskell is a solution for programmers who feel limited by imperative programming languages but are also put off by excessively mathematical approaches.
What You Will Learn
Grasp a solid math foundation without complex technicalities for Types and Typeclasses.
Solve problems via a typed functional approach and understand why it’s superior to what’s available in the imperative language world (“if it compiles, it runs”).
Build your own abstractions to efficiently resolve problems in any given domain.
Develop AI frameworks in Haskell, including chatbots, web functionality, and retrieval-augmented generation.
Who This Book Is For
Haskell programmers of all levels and those interested in Type Theory.
455 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 16, 2025
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November 12, 2025
It introduces Haskell basics in a nice manner, pace and order. The author appreciates visual diagrams to describe typeclasses functionality and relations, which could help newcomers. With that, it covers truly a lot of Haskell core concepts in one book. It couldn't replace a course of Haskell for sure, but none of the books can, if you read just a single one and without exercise.
And finally, and possibly a spoiler here, the author leads to the conclusion that nodes in visual programming are just function Arrows (while perfectly explaining Arrows)—even in a much simpler way, than I could have expected. So this book provided me with a bunch of inspiring ideas for Noodle :).
And finally, and possibly a spoiler here, the author leads to the conclusion that nodes in visual programming are just function Arrows (while perfectly explaining Arrows)—even in a much simpler way, than I could have expected. So this book provided me with a bunch of inspiring ideas for Noodle :).
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