Jimmie Houchin
I have been perusing the haskell.org site and reading some of the tutorials. I just didn't want to expend lots of time just to find out that my math skills were woefully inadequate. I am grateful to learn (snip)
Right. My math background isn't good enough for me to understand (without much effort) some of the list traffic here - there's a lot I'm still wrapping my head around. With much of the Haskell I've figured out, I've done so by studying examples of others' code. Still, the Haskell I do know is more than enough for me to do plenty of things with, and it certainly covers everything I'd normally have coming to mind from my use of other languages.
The reason I asked about programming in the small, was my desire to spend my time and energy in a single direction. The ability to move what I do in Python to Haskell aids in that goal. It also promotes my (snip)
Yes. I've ported a number of little Perl and bash scripts to Haskell with very pleasing results. (Most recently, a little script that does AUTHINFO GENERIC authentication by MD5 to an NNTP server.) It's even quite easy to slap together little one-off programs once you're comfortable with using "do" and the IO monad (which is pretty easy for single-threaded stuff, and forkProcess works nicely too IMLE). -- Mark