learn-you-a-haskell VS book

Learn You a Haskell

The LYAH is by far my favorite book for beginners, however, it lacks exercises for you to practice, but you can still move along typing and playing with the examples shown, and it’s free to read online. It’s outdated but most of the code may still be valid with little to no changes.

Learn You a Haskell For Great Good! is also a really good resource:

https://learnyouahaskell.com/

If you've never done functional, Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good was a very fun read, and I'll always love Learn You a Haskell for Great Good for showing me everything imperative languages kinda gloss over magically, as well as why I should never take a job working in Haskell!

you start that way, but don't do http://learnyouahaskell.com really?

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!

I've read some part of the book Real World OCaml, by Yaron Minsky and Anil Madhavapeddy.

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

I also saw this book OCaml from the Very Beginning by John Whitington.

https://ocaml-book.com/

I have not read that one yet. But I know about the author, from having come across his PDF tools written in OCaml, called OCamlPDF, earlier.

I started with the official documentation, which was enough to get an overview of the language and its type model, install the development tools and compile a small "hello world" application. However as I dove deeper I discovered other resources as well, such as Real World OCaml, OCamlverse, OCaml Operators where I could find the information I couldn't find on the official page.

Hard to find newer things in Python. Perhaps:

https://github.com/JuliaQuant

Used at Jane Street:

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

> This is book communism and fails for the same reasons as regular communism. It is in nobody’s interest to do any hard work. If you don’t reward great effort, virtually nobody provides it.

Counterpoint that is decidedly not motivated by communism:

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

There are many books like it, comprehensive, written with great effort, and free for anyone to read.

Some of your questions might be answered in this book (free online version): https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

I don't think they're wrong

the Jane Street side are quite prolific with blog posts etc

as a newcomer to OCaml one of the first, and nicer-looking, intro resources you'll likely encounter is the Real World OCaml book https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ which unfortunately does everything using Base instead of the stdlib

Personally that didn't sit right to me and I prefer to use the stdlib by default (which seems fine and not in need of a wholesale replacement)

This is an oldie but a goodie.

OCaml has, unlike Standard ML, grown quite a lot since this page was made.

In particular, the section "Standard libraries", I'd recommend looking at:

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/

A couple of places where the comparison is outdated:

- OCaml using Base [1] allows for result-type oriented programming

- OCaml using Base uses less language magic and more module system

While there was and is truth to the distinction that SML is for scientists and OCaml is for engineers, this dichotomy is getting dated: OCaml is under active development, which means that scientists who want better tooling will choose OCaml. For example, 1ML [2] by Andreas Rossberg was built in OCaml.

[1]: https://opensource.janestreet.com/base/

Real World OCaml (version 2 is finally out) is also pretty good.

Real World OCaml is also a good resource, geared more towards people who already have some programming experience and want a more industry/practical focused learning experience.