Hello Brian, Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 3:39:41 PM, you wrote:
So I was wondering if there was a better introduction for me out there? I'm willing to pay for a book or read something online, whichever.
i think that there are not so much FP programmers learning Haskell (comparing to number of imperative/OOP programmers) so you may be out of luck here. you may just skip things that you already know. laziness, advanced type system, monads and type classes would be main new concepts to learn you will find a lot of introductions into monads in the appropriate section of http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials , including introductions for Muchos, Monsters and even starship builders ;) But the best one is http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html you will also find here introduction into monad transformers After you have groked what is monad you can read "all about monads": http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/index.html you may also be interested in looking at great introduction into Parsec library - parsing combinators is one of non-trivial application of monads: "Parsec, a fast combinator parser" (sorry, i remember only title of this page) you may also find interesting my explanation of IO monad: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/IO_inside page that describes how type classes works and why they are different to OOP classes: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/OOP_vs_type_classes also i found interesting to read chapter 7 of GHC users guide which describes all extensions of type system in GHC comparing to Haskell98 standard my another favorite is not about Haskell language but about using it for real-world apps: "Tackling the awkward squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell" http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf/marktoberdo... one more very interesting reading describes main Haskell differences comparing to previous languages: http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/tmp/history-v2.pdf -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com