Hello! I am student at the RWTH Aachen (Germany) and this semester professor Giesl is lecturing "Functional Programming". In the first part of this lecture Haskell is presented and all basic concepts are explained (recursion, pattern matching, lambda expressions, user declared data types, ...). Later in this lecture the theoretical background is the main topic (semantics, lambda calculus, ...). If you are interested, you can watch this lecture on video: http://video.s-inf.de/#FP.2005-SS-Giesl.(COt).HD_Videoaufzeichnung The lecture of course is being held in English. The video is encoded with XviD 1250 KBit and 64 KBit Mono-MP3. The download-server is connected with about 100 MBit, so your download should be quite fast. Have fun, -- Carsten Otto carsten.otto@gmail.com www.c-otto.de