31 Jan
2007
31 Jan
'07
4:51 a.m.
ithika:
Quoth Paul Moore, nevermore,
why a newcomer like me shouldn't do this - in many ways, it's better to start with some examples from a newcomer's perspective ("these are the sort of things I found useful") to show the more experienced people what we're looking for.
I agree with this. I think many people start with the idea of simple text processing or something (like summing a list of numbers from a text file, say) but that stuff isn't really covered because it's so trivial. But it can be difficult to realise how trivial it is. :)
Hey, we have a whole page for that program! http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shootout/SumFile -- Don