Explaining with Haskell

Our second book, Sockets and Pipes, is in early access! Some reflection on how this project began, and why Haskell is a great language for teaching other concepts.

For a long time, my impression of software was that code is always a dirty thing. The design of a system or the concept of an algorithm may be beautiful, but manifestation of an idea into executable reality via “programming” is the undignified transformation of hope into something metallic that is full of clutter, rot, and shame. At best, carefully desi…