Hello -- I'm writing at the suggestion of Shae Erisson, who mentioned to me that there was some interest in writing a collaborative online Haskell tutorial. I happen to be involved in organizing something called the Language of the Year project (LotY), which, in brief, involves following up on the advice offered by the Pragmatic Programmers, that advice being that programmers should try to learn at least one new language every year. (See <http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com>, where there's a Language of the Year link.) The purpose of LotY is for people who are basically capable of teaching themselves new programming languages (not programming novices) to do it in a structured and somewhat synchronized way -- which, for some of us, may be the difference between not doing it and really doing it. Now, here's the thing: Our language of the year for 2002 is Haskell -- which means that a whole bunch of programmers are just now entering into a worldwide Haskell-learning support network. There are various books and resources available to us, of course, and that's fine. But when Shae mentioned that there's talk of a new Haskell tutorial coming into being, that got me thinking. We've got a rather large group of programmers about to learn Haskell, and we might have some Haskell programmers who want to write a new tutorial. Would it be possible, perhaps, to bring those groups together? What I'm thinking is that we, the LotY people, could serve as tutorial testers, while at the same time the tutorial under construction could help us learn Haskell. We could try out exercises, point out unclarities (or clarities for that matter), and generally troubleshoot the project. And there'd be something in it for us, obviously. So, if anyone's thinking along tutorial-writing lines, and would like some tutees, please contact me and we can try to weave that into to the LotY project. Thanks -- David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav