Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovacaby Miran Lipovaca
Shares rank 59 of 115 programming books by recommenders
Recommended as a go-to introduction to Haskell and functional programming, sitting alongside Land of Lisp in discussions of learning Lisp-like languages.
Recommended as a go-to introduction to Haskell and functional programming, sitting alongside Land of Lisp in discussions of learning Lisp-like languages.
4 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 4
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 4 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Go-to Haskell introduction
“I typically recommend LYAH”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “GHC now runs in the browser” Helps with functional programming
“great at understanding functional programming with lisp like languages”
Comment from 17 Jul 2026 in “A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp” Captures the programming zeitgeist
“titles like Learn You A Haskell For Great Good and Land of Lisp really capture the zeitgeist”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Perl's decline was cultural”
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| Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!by Miran LipovacaThis page | 4 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
3 of the 4 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“great at understanding functional programming with lisp like languages”
“titles like Learn You A Haskell For Great Good and Land of Lisp really capture the zeitgeist”
“I typically recommend LYAH”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.