Jerry writes:
While my goals are: * Become a pragmatic haskell programmer in the shortest time * At the minimal expense
What I have done for the past few weeks were: * I read almost all the free educational sources at www.haskell.org, * Subscribed to this mailing list and try to digest every mail * Read most of the "The Haskell School of Expression" (by Paul Hudak) and the non-theoretical chapters of the "An Introduction To Functional Programming Systems Using Haskell" (by AJT Davie), which are the only two introductory level haskell related books in our library
My advice would be to install GHC [*] or Hugs, and do all the exercises from the Hudak textbook. You can't learn to program by reading, you only learn by actually writing programs. Other than that, you could try reading the Haskell 98 Report to learn about the language, and skimming the documentation for the libraries to get an idea of what's available. Again, you'll learn about the libraries by using them, not by reading the docs - but you need to skim at least the contents pages of the docs so you know what's out there. Haskell 98 Report: http://www.haskell.org/definition/ Haskell 98 standard libraries docs: http://www.haskell.org/definition/ Other Haskell libraries docs: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/book-hslibs.html Hope this helps! --KW 8-) [*] If you use GHC, you'll probably find the interpeter (GHCi) easier to use and better for experimentation than the compiler (GHC).