Monday, October 26, 2009

Implementing Generic Algorithms in Functional Languages

Haskell has the status like Hebrew ,Latin ,or Greek in the natural languages. Knowledge of Haskell will help you understand concepts of functional programming. I am profiting very much Haskell lectures which gave by Erick Meijer.
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/C9-Lectures-Dr-Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-Fundamentals-Chapter-4-of-13/
Generic functions increase reusability and composability . Let us start with the small example and we want write a function that gives biggest element of a given tuple. Well, if we implement this function Haskell.
Please read more: http://www.paul-abraham.com/GenericAlgorithms.doc