Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cal, Clojure, Groovy, Haskell, OCaml, etc.

korpios:

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Hong Yang wrote:

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Good libraries are not enough for a language to go beyond mere existence. There must exist good documents, i.e., good tutorials, good books, and good explanations and examples in the libraries, etc, that are easy for people to learn and use. In my humble opinion, Haskell has a lot of libraries, but most of them offer few examples of how to use the modules. In this regards, Perl is much much better.

This. As an experienced Pythonista but a beginning Haskeller, there is *no way* I would have been able to wrap my head around the basics of Haskell without the tutorage of Learn You A Haskell, Real World Haskell, and various smaller tutorials scattered around the Haskell wiki — but I still find the array of libraries confusing (just what comes with GHC — I'm not even talking about Hackage here), since the

What comes with GHC is the Haskell Platform these days. Actually, the other way around. GHC comes with the Haskell Platform. http://haskell.org/platform/ The contents of which are specified here: http://haskell.org/platform/contents.html -- Don