As a newbie... I'll agree with Robin. I /did/ think that IO in Haskell was probably very difficult because it's covered in page 94. I skimmed through YAHT and IO is covered waaaayyy deep into the document. I haven't read that section yet, but there is a lot of content and to me it looked like it must be something difficult. I guess/hope that when I get around to reading it I'll find out that it's not as scary as it looks.
Rest assured it is dead simple. Really. I would even argue that it is a lot simpler than in many other languages.
I agree. It's on page 31 in YAHT, and 1-11 are "getting started with Hugs" and so on. One of the whole points of YAHT is to introduce it early. -- Hal Daume III | hdaume@isi.edu "Arrest this man, he talks in maths." | www.isi.edu/~hdaume