RE: Learning Haskell and FP

2001-01-04 Thread i r thomas
>Perhaps this would be a good moment to advertise the revised version of > Tackling the Tackling the Awkward Squad: > monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, > and foreign-language calls in Haskell > http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/#marktoberdorf >(Concerning

Writing a beginners guide to Haskell

2001-01-03 Thread i r thomas
>Here's a suggestion: would someone like to write such a guide, >from the point of view of a beginner, leaving blanks that we can fill in, >when you come across a task or issue you don't know the answer >to? That is, you provide the skeleton, and we fill in the blanks. Well, I am definitely a be

Re: Learning Haskell and FP

2000-12-29 Thread i r thomas
On 12/28/2000 at 7:00 PM Bill Halchin wrote: >Hello IR, >I agree with the OU Haskell Tutorial. It is excellent!! Yes, with a bit of editing and more diagrams , it would probably be worth publishing. >BTW, what is your C# source? The .NET Framework SDK is freely downloadable from MS ( around

Haskell newsgroup

2000-12-28 Thread i r thomas
How about starting a Haskell newsgroup ? The closest seems to be comp.lang.functional. ___ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: Learning Haskell and FP

2000-12-28 Thread i r thomas
>While it may not be advanced or mathematical enough for your needs, you may wish to >read _The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming through >Multimedia,_ by Paul Hudak. This is also an introductory book on functional >programming, with a special focus on Haskell, alth

Re: Learning Haskell and FP

2000-12-27 Thread i r thomas
>I have read "The Craft of Functional Programming" by Simon Thompson and a >few paper on the web. "The Craft" is a good book, but it is an introduction >to FP. >It seems to me it there are a lot of books on OO design I can pick up at the >bookstore, but in the FP world, one must worm their way th