On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:27:56 +0100, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Three of us also have a very rough start on a hands-on, practical > > introduction to Haskell aimed at the experienced imperative programmer. > > This is *very* important - bringing new people from the imperative (I do not > mean they should be 'converted' at any cost :-) camp by showing them how > Haskell can be very elegant solution for solving general programming problems > and than one does not require to hold a Ph.D. in a CS to be qualified to > program in Haskell.
A year or so a go I started a tutorial series with the intent of doing just this. However I only got past a very rough first draft of the first tutorial that, quite frankly, was rubbish, and I didn't have time to finish it. There is still the "why should you care" article available at http://www.haskell.org/complex but the rest of my ambitious project was put on ice. Anyway, I'm currently working on an article for a Swedish print magazine on Haskell (similar to the one linked above, but less argumentative) that's due out at the end of January 2005. Hopefully that will contribute to spark the interest of a few imperative programmers to try Haskell out. I think that's a pretty good way to go about it. If you calmly list the benifits of Haskell, with a few tutorial-ish examples, and get that published in a print magazine (which the mainstream programmers read) I think that could convince quite a few people to give it a try. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
