Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Learning Haskell

2009-03-25 Thread Lanny Ripple
Learning the syntax, a day or two. Learning major idioms (many of which are encapsulated in modules), ongoing (it's been about two years of off and on). Sadly I can't use it for my $work language. If I could then the time available for learning haskell and paying the mortgage would not be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Learning Haskell

2009-03-25 Thread jean-christophe mincke
I discovered Haskell about a year and half ago, along with F#. Beginning with both languages was relatively easy but I already had experience of FP in lisp and scheme. And some years ago I took a course in FP (learning CAML which F# is closely based on). My study of haskell went smooth up to the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Learning Haskell

2009-03-24 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Tom.Amundsen tomamund...@gmail.com writes: How long did it take you to become proficient in Haskell? Something more than twenty years. By that, I mean - how long until you were just as comfortable with Haskell as you were with your strongest language at that time? Oh, Haskell was my