Mark P Jones comments: ...
| > > Simon Peyton-Jones. The implementation of functional | > > programming languages. Prentice-Hall, 1987 ... | This book is already on-line at | | http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Papers/student.ps.gz
That's a useful resource too, but it's not the book that the first poster mentioned. The earlier book was more advanced, more research-oriented, and (in most respects) covered more material than the later one (which was intended as an executable tutorial).
Personally, I honestly don't think I would have been able to put Gofer together without many hours poring over Simon's 1987 book.
Just for the record: this wonderful (really!) book has others authors as well: Philip Wadler, Peter Hancock,... contributed, writing some chapters. Jerzy Karczmarczuk Caen, France PS. The Haskell mailing group received - as you know - an ad:
LIL DRIVER GOLF CART "The Perfect Holiday Gift" for the 3 to 7 year old golfer!
Would somebody care writing to those people asking them to correct the name "golfer" which has a redundant "l"?