[Haskell-beginners] Re: Announcement: Real World Haskell

Jeff Greer writes:

Hi Ben,There is plenty of room at http://linuxagora.com for new reading groups. I'll add it to the list. If you know enough that would be interested in the Hutton book, it could be done concurrently. We are always open for new ideas.Thanks, Jeff

Thank you. One issue with reading RWH online is the sheer quantity and length of comments: Many of the comments contain detailed supplementary information, but reading through all the comments actually takes far more time than reading the text, with the result that reading them both together and practicing all the examples takes hours for a single chapter. It would be nice to have some kind of rating system/filter for the comments (say, similar to that for _Slashdot Apple Stories_ [1]), so that only comments above a certain rating could be filtered through. I usually wind up reading all the comments (some of which require re-reading parts of the text for the context) for each section, and by the time I am done with them, I usually don't have enough time (or energy) left for the rest of the chapter until the next sitting. One reason that I suggested _Programming in Haskell_ is that it takes less time to read. While I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to editing RWH through comments, reading them all (and some need to be read through to determine whether they are significant) in a reading group with deadlines for reading each chapter can be too exhausting. -- Benjamin L. Russell [1] _Slashdot Apple Stories._ Geeknet, Inc., 2010. Web. 3 Aug. 2010. http://apple.slashdot.org/.

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Jeff Greer mailto:jgreer613@gmail.com writes:

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Hi Russel,Thanks for the suggestion to start a Haskell Reading Group mail list. At the current time, I can not fit it into my schedul...  full time teaching job, gard school, and family....I hope some find the reading group useful.

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My pleasure.  Incidentally, another great book I would suggest for a reading group would be _Programming in Haskell_ [1], by Graham Hutton.

Does anybody have any plans to start a reading group for this book?

-- Benjamin L. Russell

[1] Hutton, Graham. _Programming in Haskell._ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Print. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/%7Egmh/book.html.

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