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Redoing Make - Haskell from Scratch #1

jekor · 57.2K views · 2013-04-24 · 16:04

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The first episode of a screencast series building djb's redo build system from scratch in Haskell. It explains the purpose of redo, writes initial code and sets up a GitHub repository.

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Recommended to Haskell learners as a rare example of building a real program step by step beyond toy examples.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2014–2021

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traviscj · 2014-02 · Strong recommendation

I haven't ever done anything too significant in Haskell, but the Jekor Redo [1] videos are fantastic, and demonstrate the slow building up of more complicated things than "reverse this string." I haven't watched his xmonad [2] or pandoc [3] videos yet, but I would bet that they are highly worthwhile as well. - 1: [VIDEO] - 2: [LINK] - 3: [LINK]

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mavelikara · 2021-12 · Recommendation

Chris Forno (jekor) made an implementation of djb's redo in Haskell. The videos of him live coding it are on YouTube, and I recommended it for anyone wanting to learn Haskell. [VIDEO]

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minikomi · 2014-08 · Recommendation

There's definitely a stage when you want to graduate from bottom-up tinkering & learning the underlying concepts to making things -- this is where I feel there's a big gap in the haskell materials right now. There's some great screncasts though which have been helpful. [LINK] - Implement a sed clone in Haskell (a bit broken towards the end but a great look at a small incremental project) [VIDEO] - implementing redo in Haskell

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