SPJs very popular 'Taste of Haskell' talk slides, featuring xmonad, are online now: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2007/os_peytonjones.pdf Good for those looking for a nice introduction to real world programming in Haskell, including: * Basics (syntax, data types, functions, recursion, composition, purity, module system) * Testing with QuickCheck * Type classes, the full story * Effects, IO, imperative programming * FFI * Laziness * (Typed) scripting in Haskell * Profiling, Coverage checking * Library database, hackage. -- Don