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Usage examples and benchmarks between Scalaz and Cats (w/ Haskell ground-truth).
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More books and commercial training #2

Closed fommil closed 6 years ago

fommil commented 6 years ago

continuing the trend of impartiality, additional training material has been added for both scalaz and cats.

fosskers commented 6 years ago

Thanks! I ended up reformatting it a bit.

fommil commented 6 years ago

cool :smile: although, as with all refactorings that do not have a test... a bug has crept in.

Functional Programming in Scala is for newcomers to Scala. FPMortals is for newcomers to FP (but with some Scala experience). The cats book is "an advanced" book.

fosskers commented 6 years ago

Ok, I'll rework the ScalaZ book descriptions. The Cats one self-described as asking for a year of Scala experience, so I parroted that.

fommil commented 6 years ago

I'm not sure #fpmortals needs a year of scala experience, but I think people should have at least read Martin Odersky's book or something of that equivalent. I assume knowledge of basic things but don't assume they understand for comprehensions, typeclasses, higher kinded types, or implicits. And I intentionally never mention or refer to Haskell!

fosskers commented 6 years ago

And I intentionally never mention or refer to Haskell!

Blasphemy! :laughing: Says I, the Haskell guy. But I realize Haskell is a trigger word for some people, and your book is specifically targeting Java-background Scala people. Catering to an audience like that is totally fair - hell, I'd rather have people know and appreciate Monads without ever having heard of Haskell than the opposite.

fommil commented 6 years ago

My evil plan is to have an appendix section called "How to bluff Haskell at a conference" which will basically just show some basic Haskell syntax and refer back to things you learnt in the book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULNUr0rvEc