The second edition of Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming is essential reading for beginners to functional programming and newcomers to the Haskell programming language. The emphasis is on the process of crafting programs and the text contains many examples and running case studies, as well as advice an program design, testing, problem solving and how to avoid common pitfalls.

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the book includes many new and improved features:

• Complete coverage of Haskell 98, the standard version of Haskell
  which will be stable and supported by implementations for years to
  come
  
• An emphasis on software engineering principles, encouraging a
  disciplined approach to building reusable libraries of software
  components
  
• Detailed coverage of the Hugs interpreter with an appendix covering
  other implementations
  
• A running case study of pictures emphasizes the built-in functions
  which appear in the standard prelude and libraries. It is also used to
  give an early preview of some of the more complex language features,
  such as high-order functions
  
• List comprehensions and the standard functions over lists are covered
  before recursion
  
• Early coverage of polymorphism supporting the "toolkit" approach
  and encouraging the resuse of built-in functions and types
  
• Extensive reference material containing details of further reading in
  books, journals and on the World Wide Web
  
• Accompanying Web Site supporting the book, containing all the
  program code, further teaching materials and other useful resources
  

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Introducing functional programming
Chapter 2: Getting started with Haskell and Hugs
Chapter 3: Basic types and definitions
Chapter 4: Designing and writing programs
Chapter 5: Data types: tuples and lists
Chapter 6: Programming with lists
Chapter 7: Defining functions over lists
Chapter 8: Reasoning about programs
Chapter 9: Patterns and generalization
Chapter 10: Functions as values
Chapter 11: Progam development
Chapter 12: Type classes
Chapter 13: Checking types
Chapter 14: Algebraic types
Chapter 15: Case study: Huffman codes
Chapter 16: Abstract data types
Chapter 17: Lazy programming
Chapter 18: Programming with actions
Chapter 19: Program behaviour
Chapter 20: Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: Functional, imperative and OO programming
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Haskell operators
Appendix D: Understanding programs
Appendix E: Implementations of Haskell
Appendix F: Hugs errors