On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, George Russell wrote:
Paul Hudak wrote:
Unforunately, the "Gentle Introduction To Haskell" that haskell.org links to is not a very useful introduction.
John and I should probably rename this document, since it really isn't a very gentle intro at all. We should probably also downplay it's prominance on the haskell website. It was written rather quickly many years ago, at a time when there was not a single textbook on Haskell. So it's probably outlived it's purpose, although I do believe that some people still find it useful.
[cut] Nevertheless I think it might be a mistake to downplay it unless there's a better publicly-available introduction with which you can replace it.
Very valid observation. John, Paul: Wouldn't be worthwhile and possible to gradually upgrade it within some sort of a supervised documentation project at Yale, as part of your regular teaching curriculum? Jan