Before getting to the meat of the tutorial, I thought it would be good to provide some setup
\ninformation in a distinct, easy to find place. This short post will tell you where to find
\na Haskell implementation and related tools.<\/p>\n
I’m testing my examples for these articles using two different Haskell implementations:<\/p>\n
ghci<\/code> which is included in its distribution.
\nGHC is pretty much the gold standard in Haskell implementations.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\nEditors and Development Environments<\/h3>\n
It’s also good to have some extra tool support for Haskell programming. A lot of editors, such as
\nemacs, vim, and textmate provide Haskell tooling. The best tooling that I’ve seen is the EclipseFP<\/a> feature for the Eclipse<\/a> programming environment. Admittedly, I’m a bit biased here;
\nI’ve used to lead an Eclipse-based research project, so I’m a huge Eclipse fan. But the Eclipse
\nHaskell support really is very nice, and it’s very easy to set up. Installing Eclipse involves
\nnothing more than downloading it – it runs very smoothly in-place with no setup; and installing
\nEclipseFP can be done inside of Eclipse using the update manager – there’s a complete step by step
\nexplanation at the EclipseFP homepage linked above. <\/p>\n If you’re a visual studio user, there’s a Haskell package called Visual Haskell<\/a>. I’ve never used it (I’m not<\/em>
\na windows guy; I use MacOS and Linux.), but I’ve heard quite good things about it.<\/p>\n If you prefer just using a simple text editor, vim includes the Haskell package; for emacs, you
\ncan get a Haskell mode here<\/a>. For TextMate, you can get
\nthe Haskell bundle via the normal bundle installation route.<\/p>\n Miscellaneous Tools<\/h3>\n
For understanding the execution of Haskell programs, particularly when the laziness gets a bit
\nconfusing, being able to generate an execution trace can be a huge help. There’s a tool called Hat<\/a> which can generate very nice, easy to follow traces for
\nGHC programs.<\/p>\n You can write fancy documentation for Haskell programs using a tool called Haddock<\/a>. Haddock is something like Javadoc for
\nHaskell. It piggybacks on a “literate” syntax mode built-in to both GHC and Hugs, so
\nat least primitive support for Haddock is included in all of the Haskell tools; many also
\nprovide additional Haddock support.<\/p>\n Other Documentation <\/h3>\n
The capital of the online Haskell world is the Haskell.org<\/a> site. It has links to numerous other tutorials, the language spec, implementations, events, etc.<\/p>\n There’s a Haskell blog called The Complete Sequence<\/a>, which includes a weekly Haskell news update, as well as other interesting articles and links. There’s another Haskell blog called Planet Haskell<\/a> which also has some good material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before getting to the meat of the tutorial, I thought it would be good to provide some setup information in a distinct, easy to find place. This short post will tell you where to find a Haskell implementation and related tools. Haskell Implementations I’m testing my examples for these articles using two different Haskell implementations: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haskell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-3F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}