Simon Thompson

Haskell

The Craft of Functional Programming

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this text introduces functional programming in the Haskell language at a level appropriate for students and programmers with little or no experience of functional languages. The emphasis is on the process of crafting programs, problem solving and avoiding common pitfalls. The book is split into 3 parts : basic functional programming, abstraction and larger-scale programming, leading the reader step-by-step through the basics of the subject before introducing more advanced topics.

Produktdetails

• International Computer Science Series
• Verlag: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam / PEV
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 176mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 854g
• ISBN-13: 9780201342758
• ISBN-10: 0201342758
• Artikelnr.: 11743006

Autorenporträt

Simon Thompson is Professor of Logic and Computation in the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent, where he has taught computing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for the past twenty five years, and where he has been department head for the last six.

His research work has centered on functional programming: program verification, type systems, and most recently development of software tools for functional programming languages. His team has built the HaRe tool for refactoring Haskell programs, and is currently developing Wrangler to do the same for Erlang. His research has been funded by various agencies including EPSRC and the European Framework programme. His training is as a mathematician: he has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge and a D.Phil. in mathematical logic from Oxford.

He has written three books in his field of interest; Type Theory and Functional Programming published in 1991; Miranda: The Craft of Functional Programming (1995) and Haskell: The Craf

t of Functional Programming (2nd ed. 1999). These are all published by Addison Wesley.