On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:07:29PM +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
I'm still looking for a good *practical* tutorial that I could recommend to newcomers. IO, data types and QuickCheck in the very first chapter, I say! Real program examples from the get go, and go into the theory on why this has been hard in FP before Haskell (or Monadic IO rather) much much later, so as to not scare people away.
Indeed, I have been wanting to write something like this for a long time. perhaps using ginsu or (a simplified) jhc as a long running example throughout the tutorial. unfortunatly my prose is worse than my code. But I think such a tutorial (book?) describing how to write a real-world haskell program from scratch without glossing over details like IO would be a really great addition to the haskell bookshelf. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈