On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 20:00 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: [snip]
I raise my question once again: Must Haskell's tutorials be tailored to impatient programmers? Does Haskell need quick&dirty hackers?
IMO yes, because it exposes the language to the outside world and that's a form of testing. In the end, anything that's not usable is useless. Paraphrasing a quote about science in general, "There is nothing about Haskell that cannot be grasped by a second rate mind through persistence." Let's not exaggerate how difficult and special it all is. And the purpose of a tutorial is not to make the writer look smart and important, but to ease things for the reader. I wouldn't want to exclude the scurrilous unwashed from the Haskell experience, this close to Christmas, too. :-) Regards, Hans van Thiel