Re: We need "Documentation" (Was: Re: Integer to String Conversion?)
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On Tuesday 04 December 2001 02:51, you wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Chris wrote:
is there a function that converts Integers to Strings and vice versa?
Prelude> (reads "123 abc") :: [(Integer, String)] [(123," abc")] Prelude> show 123 "123"
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Why doesn't an author or two who have written Haskell books consider opening their books for public use on the Internet? "The Craft Of ..." especially seems great. I'm sure many coders would appreciate a non-dead-tree version of that book or a shortened version of the book.
The material we have is simply lacking. What we need is a good tutorial and a comprehensive reference book.
... I suggest you look at http://www.haskell.org/bookshelf/, specifically the section on Papers available on the Web. This gives numerous tutorials and introductions. -- Tony Davie Computer Science (retired), St.Andrews University G.F. Handel Site: http://bruichladdich.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/HandelWWW/HandelCat.html Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. (from a music exam)
From: Tony Davie <ad@dcs.st-and.ac.uk> Subject: Re: We need "Documentation" (Was: Re: Integer to String Conversion?) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:38:49 +0000
The material we have is simply lacking. What we need is a good tutorial and a comprehensive reference book.
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I suggest you look at http://www.haskell.org/bookshelf/, specifically the section on Papers available on the Web. This gives numerous tutorials and introductions.
I agree with Eray, I tried to learn Haskell without any printed material, and failed. Once I had the Simon Thompson's "Craft of.." I was doing fine. I have an irc friend who would also like to learn Haskell, and who is blind. He uses a braille reader in the Linux console, but the electronically available Haskell documentation just isn't sufficient. I taught myself Python in about two weeks with the online Python tutorial, I think something similar for Haskell would greatly increase the number of Haskell users. ---- Shae Matijs Erisson - http://www.webwitches.com/~shae/ Rabid Linux/XEmacs User - MSOffice documents will be returned as LaTeX
I taught myself Python in about two weeks with the online Python tutorial, I think something similar for Haskell would greatly increase the number of Haskell users.
I'm not familiar with the Python tutorial, but the Java tutorial which resides at java.sun.com is pretty much the most highly praised thing I know about. If ever anyone has a Java question or is trying to learn Java, everyone I know simply tells them to read that. It takes about 10 minutes to get up and running (assuming some programming background). Where is the Python tutorial located and is it more-or-less the same as the Java one? Would anyone be interested in working on a similar thing for Haskell? - Hal
From: Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU> Subject: Re: We need "Documentation" Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:07:12 -0800 (PST)
Where is the Python tutorial located and is it more-or-less the same as the Java one?
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html
Would anyone be interested in working on a similar thing for Haskell?
me! I'd suggest a HaskellWiki page, since multiuser edits are low overhead there. ---- Shae Matijs Erisson - http://www.webwitches.com/~shae/ Rabid Linux/XEmacs User - MSOffice documents will be returned as LaTeX
I think we should move this off the mailing list. I'm willing to spear-head such an effort. Anyone who is interested in contributing, please email me. I'll compile a list of people and we can figure out what we want to do. - Hal -- Hal Daume III "Computer science is no more about computers | hdaume@isi.edu than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Shae Erisson wrote:
From: Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU> Subject: Re: We need "Documentation" Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:07:12 -0800 (PST)
Where is the Python tutorial located and is it more-or-less the same as the Java one?
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html
Would anyone be interested in working on a similar thing for Haskell?
me! I'd suggest a HaskellWiki page, since multiuser edits are low overhead there. ---- Shae Matijs Erisson - http://www.webwitches.com/~shae/ Rabid Linux/XEmacs User - MSOffice documents will be returned as LaTeX
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