On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:07:29PM +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: > I'm still looking for a good *practical* tutorial that I could > recommend to newcomers. > IO, data types and QuickCheck in the very first chapter, I say! Real > program examples from the get go, and go into the theory on why this > has been hard in FP before Haskell (or Monadic IO rather) much much > later, so as to not scare people away.
Indeed, I have been wanting to write something like this for a long time. perhaps using ginsu or (a simplified) jhc as a long running example throughout the tutorial. unfortunatly my prose is worse than my code. But I think such a tutorial (book?) describing how to write a real-world haskell program from scratch without glossing over details like IO would be a really great addition to the haskell bookshelf. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe