On 5/9/05, Daniel Carrera
I've been trying to learn Haskell.
Great... We are on the same boat :)
I tried to compile GHC but it said taht it needed GHC to compile.
Yes, looks like GHC is a little picky to build, to say the least (i'm working on OS X and i'm lucky, there are people interested enough to make ghc 6.4 build fine on this platform).
At this point I decide that I'll teach people Python instead of Haskell. I don't particularly like Python, but hey, it works.
Actually, i've had the same choice to do: i have to prepare a intro to functional programming course. I've discovered Haskell and find it particulary suited to my needs and tastes but when it comes to I/O i was rather afraid (monads are not so easy to understand and there's not documentation/tutorial in my natural tongue). So, i've considered Python, too (because it had comprehension lists and first order function, plus a simple print/read stance). But Python is not a pure functional langage and i know what it will happen if i use it: my students will be tempted by the procedural way. Plus, they loose the opportunity to "think different". So, i will go with Haskell. There are very good books/docs about it (i'm currently the Thomson) and, forget the monads, i will simply speak about IO and do... Have you considered Hugs98? (don't know if it works on you platform), but it's a great environment (compilation is not particularly needed to learn a language). -- Jaco