I should also mention I&#39;ve been through node.js&#39;s tutorials, and I&#39;ve briefly dabbled in Ruby. Is it far-fetched to think I can be just as productive in Haskell as opposed to using stuff I already know? Just trying to decide if it&#39;s worth continuing my learning experience. One alternative I&#39;ve considered is to take it slow with Haskell, and use it more for educational purposes for now, and use it when I feel comfortable. Read through one section of LYAH/week, one section of the R tutorial/day, and work on one project euler problem each week.<br>
<br>Then again if it&#39;s just for educational purposes, I could even throw in the SICP videos when, but I&#39;m not sure how practical that is either.<br><br>On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:52 PM, haskell heath <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:haskell.heath@gmail.com">haskell.heath@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I&#39;m new to Haskell and I can&#39;t really call myself a decent programmer in any other language. Do you think it&#39;s wrong to think that I can contribute to the statistics library? I can&#39;t decide if I&#39;m being pragmatic for me to learn Haskell and contribute to the statistics library in hopes of being as productive as I would be in learning R. I&#39;m wanting to write a scraper and analyze that data, and I figure this is what the statistics module can be used for. The other alternative to Haskell and R, is to use something like node.js for scraping, js&#39;s regex for filtering, and analyzing the resulting data with RPy.<br>

<br>Here&#39;s a brief overview of my programming exp:<br>Python:<br>- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist using Python<br>- official tutorial<br>- official reference material<br>- a few project euler problems<br><br>
Javascript<br>
- all of the Mozilla docs<br><br>Haskell<br>- started with the RWH, switched to 98&#39; Report, switched over to Yet Another Haskell Tutorial, switched to Gentle Intro, and finally switched to Learn You a Haskell and I&#39;m on the seventh chapter now. I&#39;m considering switching yet again to A Gentle Intro, because it&#39;s been months now, and I just want to finish one of these, and that seems to be quickest route.<br>

<br>Other<br>- I have briefly learned about C and C++, I start an intro to C++ programming next semester.<br><br>Thank you for your help.<br>
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