2009/2/2 Emil Axelsson
Hello,
Are there any Haskell tutorials suitable for people who don't (and possibly don't want to) know Haskell, but just want to use an embedded language that happens to be in Haskell?
Such a tutorial would focus on using libraries rather than defining them. For example, it might explain how to interpret a type signature involving type classes, but not how to write one's own type class.
Thanks,
/ Emil
Hi, Emil I don't think it's a good idea (or even possible) to use a Haskell library without knowing anything about Haskell or functional programming. However, it shouldn't take too long to learn the very basics needed to get going, but this of course depends on the complexity of the library you're trying to use. Take some the time to read the parts that are relevant to you in e.g. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (http://learnyouahaskell.com/) or Real World Haskell which has been published in book form, but is also available at http://book.realworldhaskell.org. If you haven't already taken the course "Introduction to Functional Programming given at Chalmers", you can take a look at the lecture slides and/or exercises/labs from the course at http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/funht/. I hope that helps. Deniz