On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:05:43 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to the thing it does best.
This is precisely why newcomers flounder. Yes, there certainly should be a "Haskell for experienced Java/C++ programmers : All of the advanced things you can do more easily than you ever thought possible." But that's not the way to attract Joe Programmer, who has never had to write a parser. Joe Programmer needs to be shown how Haskell can solve _his_ problems. That might mean that you need to start with an extremely non-idiomatic Haskell program, one that has some of the "look and feel" of what programmers from other languages are comfortable with. And then transform that program, step-by-step, into something that takes advantage of Haskell's strengths. Steve Schafer Fenestra Technologies Corp. http://www.fenestra.com/