[Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
haskell is greate but i don't know how to start. 2007-09-11 clisper ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
Because I had a background in videogame development, I purchased The Haskell School of Expression. I found this a great book, but it has a fast pace, so be prepared. To me, Haskell was a bit like climbing a mountain which is largely covered by fog; you don't see anything until you've climbed high enough, and then the view is really beautiful ;-) Peter clisper wrote: haskell is greate but i don't know how to start. 2007-09-11 clisper ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
On 11/09/2007, Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, Haskell was a bit like climbing a mountain which is largely covered by fog; you don't see anything until you've climbed high enough, and then the view is really beautiful ;-) Either that or: the foothills are glorious, but as soon as you get into the higher altitudes you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape... D. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
RE: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
LOL! Another problem is that I always have to descend again for my main job which involves C#/C++, and all that climbing up and down is *very* tiersome. Peter -Original Message- From: Dougal Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: clisper; Haskell-Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners? On 11/09/2007, Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, Haskell was a bit like climbing a mountain which is largely covered by fog; you don't see anything until you've climbed high enough, and then the view is really beautiful ;-) Either that or: the foothills are glorious, but as soon as you get into the higher altitudes you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape... D. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
On 9/11/07, clisper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: haskell is greate but i don't know how to start. A good place to start is the Haskell wiki: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell On the left, look under Learning Haskell -- there's all kinds of great stuff linked from there. I would also suggest hanging out in the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net -- it's a great place to learn and ask questions. If you give us more information about your programming/mathematics background, why you're learning Haskell, what you hope to get out of it, etc. I'm sure people could also give you some more specific suggestions. -Brent ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
Dougal Stanton wrote: On 11/09/2007, Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, Haskell was a bit like climbing a mountain which is largely covered by fog; you don't see anything until you've climbed high enough, and then the view is really beautiful ;-) Either that or: the foothills are glorious, but as soon as you get into the higher altitudes you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape... At the risk of being told to STHU again... somebody should collect these things and keep them somewhere! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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On 9/11/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape... It's not so bad. It's in the nature of monads that after you've fallen in once, you can never get trapped any deeper. -- Dan ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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Dan Piponi wrote: On 9/11/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape... It's not so bad. It's in the nature of monads that after you've fallen in once, you can never get trapped any deeper. But you can climb higher... (Note: Best viewed in mono-space!) Programmer's Nirvana plane --- Categoric plane --- Co-Monadic plane (Co- everything) - Applicative plane -- Pointless-pointfree plane -- Monadic plane (don't get trapped) ------ Functional plane (Haskell et al!) ------ Imperative plane ASM, C#, Java :) ------ Physical plane (e.g. Silicon) -- Ron ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can somebody give any advice for beginners?
On 9/11/07, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dougal Stanton wrote: On 11/09/2007, Peter Verswyvelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, Haskell was a bit like climbing a mountain which is largely covered by fog; you don't see anything until you've climbed high enough, and then the view is really beautiful ;-) Either that or: the foothills are glorious, but as soon as you get into the higher altitudes you can fall down a monad and not be able to escape... At the risk of being told to STHU again... somebody should collect these things and keep them somewhere! The logical place would be http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Humor. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
