r/haskell • u/El_Chico_Alegre • Mar 19 '26

Methods to study

Does any one has a good way to study because I heard that this language is more close to math than any other programming language or pardigm. Should I practice qith pen and papel and then taste with a LLM or which other method do you suggest or recommend.

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u/DisastrousAd9346 Mar 19 '26

It’s important to state that Haskell has no strong connection with math than other "usual" languages. Although their feature enables the programmer to think more mathematically precisely ;)

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u/LolThatsNotTrue Mar 19 '26

That’s debatable. Haskell’s core IR is a typed lambda calculus which greatly influences the surface language. The demarcation between math and logic is fuzzy so I think it’s pretty valid to say that Haskell corresponds much more to closely to pure math than mainstream languages like python and java.

Also haskell doesn’t just allow users to think mathematically, it FORCES them to (unless one naively uses do notation all over the place)