I'd love it if people took a photo of the book arriving. With enough photos , I could put together a gallery of Haskell around the world :-) Here's my copy arriving last night, http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/11/25/real-world-haskell-is-shippi... And Dino's digital version, http://galois.com/~dons/images/20081121_dm_838.jpg Drop me a line with a photo of yours arriving, and your location, and I'll add it to the gallery. Cheers, Don donnie:
Mine arrives in two days; I can't wait! :)
Thanks for all your hard work, and to all the members of the community which provided comments/suggestions to improve the book. __ Donnie Jones
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <[1]bos@serpentine.com> wrote:
Good evening -
John Goerzen, Don Stewart and I are delighted to announce the availability of our book, "Real World Haskell". It is 710 pages long, and published by O'Reilly Media.
This is the first book to comprehensively cover modern Haskell programming. From an introduction to functional programming, it focuses on teaching through many worked examples. We discuss the "awkward squad" of I/O, concurrency, and exceptions. We cover network programming, databases, and system hacking. We motivate and work with monoids, applicative functors, monads, and monad transformers. We show you how to debug code, and how to ship well-tested software.
Better yet, the book is available under a Creative Commons license, so you can read as much of it as you please before you buy: [2]http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ We developed this book with the enthusiastic and voluble support of the Haskell community, and we are proud to share our work in a fashion that will help newcomers to our field.
And best of all, if you order now (at least in North America), you can have a copy of the book in your hands in a matter of days.
Thank you from all of us to our friends in the Haskell world who have been so generous with their feedback and kind words! _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [3]Haskell@haskell.org [4]http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
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