Write You a Haskell

From personal experience, I can say, Haskell is pretty difficult to learn. This is the project that has helped it click for me:

sdiehl / write-you-a-haskell

Building a modern functional compiler from first principles. (http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/)

Building a modern functional compiler from first principles.

Stephen Diehl

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This is a work in progress.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Haskell Basics
Chapter 3: Parsing
Chapter 4: Lambda Calculus
Chapter 5: Type Systems
Chapter 6: Evaluation
Chapter 7: Hindley-Milner Inference
Chapter 8: Design of ProtoHaskell
Chapter 9: Extended Parser
Chapter 10: Custom Datatypes
[Chapter 11: Renamer] (http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/010_renamer.html)
Chapter 12: Pattern Matching & Desugaring
Chapter 13: System-F
Chapter 14: Type Classes
Chapter 15: Core Language
Chapter 16: Kinds
Chapter 17: Haskell Type Checker
Chapter 18: Core Interpreter
Chapter 19: Prelude
Chapter 20: Design of Lazy Evaluation
Chapter 21: STG
Chapter 22: Compilation
Chapter 23: Design of the Runtime
Chapter 24: Imp
Chapter 25: Code Generation ( C )
Chapter 26: Code Generation ( LLVM )
Chapter 27: Row Polymorphism & Effect Typing
Chapter 28: Future Work

Building

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I've always been interested in how languages work and I've been trying to learn Haskell when I can find the time. So far, I've been pretty unsuccessful, but this project has really opened my eyes to the secrets of Haskell.

If you've got any interest in either languages or Haskell, I've gotta recommend this great resource.