{"id":32,"date":"2016-03-10T13:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/?p=32"},"modified":"2016-09-01T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T18:19:22","slug":"hello-haskell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Hello Haskell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to make myself learn another programming language recently, because every problem is starting to look like a nail and my C compiler is the hammer. There&#8217;s been buzz around things like Rust, which is touted as a better language than C to do systems programming in. However I thought to myself, why not find a language with a completely different paradigm altogether? Functional languages, that sounds interesting!<\/p>\n<p>So I started learning Haskell.<\/p>\n<p>Haskell is named after mathematician Haskell Curry, who died in 1982 but has a sizable (and growing) fan club in the form of the functional programming community. His work on combinatory logic was the groundwork for functional programming; essentially eliminate the need for (mutable) variables, and work entirely with functions. Variables can be bound to a value, but it is then immutable; functions have no side effects in Haskell.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only been a week, and I&#8217;m glimpsing into very unfamiliar territory. But it does feel like fun, so I&#8217;ll write about my Haskell journey from time to time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to make myself learn another programming language recently, because every problem is starting to look like a nail and my C compiler is the hammer. There&#8217;s been buzz around things like Rust, which is touted as a better language than C to do systems programming in. However I thought to myself, why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.unixcat.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}