prad writes:

greetings!

i am very intrigued with haskell having acquired some experience in pascal, elisp, c, perl, mostly python and some sql.

i've been going through various tutorials and the online real world haskell. i've also been reading through the haskell98 report at appropriate points.

are there any recommended approaches for learning and studying haskell?

In addition to _Real World Haskell,_ have you checked out _Programming in Haskell_ (see http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html), by Graham Hutton? Duncan Coutts has written a detailed review of the title (see http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book-review.pdf). In addition, the #haskell channel (see http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel) (with an average of 655 users) is available on the Freenode IRC network. One idea is to find an interesting but workable topic, and try coding it in Haskell. With the help of some other Haskellers on the Haskell-Cafe mailing list, I once coded a simple Haskell program to associate names of wines to choices of menu items. Along these lines, you may be interested in investigating the following programming exercise sites: Project Euler A series of mathematical/computer programming problems http://projecteuler.net/ Rosetta Code A programming chrestomathy site http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^