Bayley, Alistair wrote:
For someone getting started, in IMO the Learning Haskell page has too much stuff on it. The total beginner doesn't have the knowledge they need to decide which implementation to install, which tutorial to read, or which textbook to buy. At the risk of alienating some tutorials and implementations, we ought to pick one of each and say "here, start with these". There's a balance to be struck between being fair to all resource producers (be it implementation, textbook, tutorial, or reference), and being as easy as possible for someone to get started, and I think the needle is currently too far over to the "fair" side of the scale.
As a newbie I agree with Bayley. I didn't say that before because I didn't want to be more critical than I had already been.
There should be a "getting started" page which says: - download and install this interpreter (Hugs or GHCi) - run it, type these expressions, and see the results - create a HelloWorld program, compile and execute. - now start the following tutorial... (BTW, the link to Hal Daume's tutorial from the Learning page needs fixing)
I'll try to put something together on the Wiki. Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. /