Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2003 18:01 schrieb haskell-cafe-request@haskell.org:

Message: 5 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:06:53 +0100 From: Jerzy Karczmarczuk Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E9_de_Caen=2C_France?= Cc: haskell@haskell.org, haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Learning Haskell portal, version 0.1

Arjan van IJzendoorn wrote:

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Often we see messages from people who want to learn Haskell (something we applaud), but don't know where to begin.

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Enough talk: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/haskell/LearningHaskell.html

Thanks, Arjan, nice work. I would add some significant papers, such as John Hughes' "Why functional programming matters", etc.

and perhaps - for some, a little bit advanced readers - some other papers, introducing type classes, perhaps monads (Wadler) etc. Everything can be found through the Home of Haskell, but gathering essential references on your page would shorten the search path.

I believe - from some discussions here and on comp.lang.functional (some of them quite annoying...) that it would perhaps be a good idea to put down a relatively comprehensive, easy comparison between Haskell and other languages, notably functional: Clean, also: Scheme, absolutely: ML variants, and Erlang. Such questions are, and will continue to be recurring.

Jerzy Karczmarczuk

Excellent idea -- if you need a volunteer, contact me (I am familiar with Erlang, the Lisp/Scheme group and CAML). But I would also suggest to include the declarative languages such as Prolog and Mercury, if we can find anyone who knows -- the Mercury homepage (sorry, I don't have the URL right now, it was something long and winding) contains an explicit comparison between Mercury and Haskell. (A rather fair and objective one, it must be pointed out!) And maybe one should also add a few lines about hybrids such as Python? Yours, Ruediger M. Flaig -- "I was always told that death and taxes are no subjects for discussion." "Well... the one does not concern me." "And the other?" "I admit that I do not pay taxes either." -- Diane Duane: "The Wounded Sky"