This week, I started the Functional Programming course on edX! Almost all of my recreational programming time has been devoted to Go lately, which is decidedly not functional. But I’m excited about the release of Elixir 1.0 and I’ve been meaning to do more with Clojure, so I think I’ve got a lot more functional programming in my future. Perhaps this course will give me a boost!
Haskell
The course is not a Haskell course per se, but that’s what it uses for all the examples. I installed the Glasgow Haskell Compiler with
sudo apt-get install ghc
That was easy. Thanks, Debian!
$ cat hello.hs module Main where main=putStrLn "Hello, World!" $ ghc -o hello hello.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( hello.hs, hello.o ) Linking hello ... $ ./hello Hello, World!
Emacs
Next I configured Emacs for Haskell by adding
(depends-on "haskell-mode")
to my Cask file and
(use-package haskell-mode :init (progn (add-hook 'haskell-mode-hook 'haskell-indent-mode) (add-hook 'haskell-mode-hook 'interactive-haskell-mode)))
to my Emacs init file. Now I’m ready to try the first set of exercises!
Figure 2: Emacs in haskell-mode and ghci in terminal
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