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36 lines
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5 years ago
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% -*- mode: latex; coding: utf-8; TeX-master: ../thesis -*-
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% !TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk
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% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
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% !TEX root = ../thesis.tex
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As a part of my bachelor studies, I chose to attend a course on functional programming.
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Having worked with Go for the last 3 years, first-class and higher-order functions
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were not particularly new ideas to me. However, learning Haskell was, at the beginning,
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overwhelming.
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I decided to rewrite the exercises that I did not understand in Go.
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%So what I did for some exercises that I could not understand completely is that
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%I rewrote them in Go.
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The result was more verbose; usually
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roughly two to three times the lines of code for the same algorithm.
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However, after writing the Go version, I understood not only the Go version,
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but also the Haskell version.
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After doing this several times, I realised that I was constantly rewriting
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the same higher-order functions with different types, but more or less the same
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implementation. Thus, the idea of adding them as built-ins came up.
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`Funcheck' then came into play when I wanted to build something in Go first and
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later rewrite it in Haskell. It was hard to tell whether it was purely functional,
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but it needed to be in order to be easier to write the implementation in Haskell.
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This thesis is written based on my own struggles I had with Haskell, and it is
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my hope that someday, someone may benefit from the work done in this thesis.
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Special thanks to:
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My supervisors Gerrit Burkert and Karl Rege for their support and guidance,
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Tom Whiston for proofreading this thesis and improving my English,
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Eva Kuske for the consultation on writing and
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my employer \href{http://nine.ch}{nine} for their flexible work hours.
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