[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-19 Thread John Goerzen
Kirsten Chevalier wrote: It's not as if this is the first time that this has been suggested, but some people have suggested that a practical book about Haskell would be a good idea. I agree. Some people have also suggested that the right moment for this hasn't arrived yet, and I see that as a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-19 Thread John Goerzen
John Goerzen wrote: I know this is a late reply, but some of us tried to get something like this off the ground a little while back. darcs get --partial http://software.complete.org/haskell-v8/ My brain is fried. Make that: darcs get --partial http://darcs.complete.org/haskell-v8

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-19 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Tuesday, December 19, 2006, 7:16:48 PM, you wrote: It's not as if this is the first time that this has been suggested, but some people have suggested that a practical book about Haskell would be a good idea. I agree. Some people have also suggested that the right moment for this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-14 Thread Kurt
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:18:31 +0100, Justin Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/12/06, Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. Something along the lines of The Art of Functional Programming. +1 . I would love to read something that is the equivalent of 'design patterns', but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-14 Thread Kirsten Chevalier
On 12/13/06, Justin Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/12/06, Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. Something along the lines of The Art of Functional Programming. +1 . I would love to read something that is the equivalent of 'design patterns', but for functional languages. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-14 Thread isto
ke, 2006-12-13 kello 08:18 -0800, Justin Bailey kirjoitti: On 12/12/06, Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. Something along the lines of The Art of Functional Programming. +1 . I would love to read something that is the equivalent of 'design

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-14 Thread Justin Bailey
Those are some great resources, thanks everyone! Justin ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-14 Thread Donn Cave
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kirsten Chevalier wrote: ... If you want to learn how to think functionally, forget you ever heard the words design pattern. There shouldn't be patterns in your programs. If there are, that means that either your language isn't providing you with enough abstractions or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-14 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Donn Cave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, maybe not Patterns, but wouldn't there be important skills relating to patterns in a more general sense? Like fold, for example, seems to be a pattern, with several standard implementations and no doubt countless others to suit

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-13 Thread Justin Bailey
On 12/12/06, Joachim Durchholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. Something along the lines of The Art of Functional Programming. +1 . I would love to read something that is the equivalent of 'design patterns', but for functional languages. I thought Osasaki's book Purely Functional Data

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-12 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Arie Peterson schrieb: He wrote the manuscript and it was 'aus einem Guss' (casted as one). The literal meaning of aus einem Guss is cast all at once. This has overtones of it is seamless, has no internal structural bounds which may cause the final product to fracture under stress. This is

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-12 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Ketil Malde schrieb: I generally manage to absorb just enough to get by, but I think there is a niche for a book (coupled to practical problems and complete with excercises etc) that is waiting to be filled. Agreed. Something along the lines of The Art of Functional Programming. HSoE is great

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-11 Thread Benjamin Franksen
Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Perhaps a single largish application could be the end product of the book. Like a game or something. You'd start off with some examples early on, and then as quickly as possible start working on the low level utility functions for the game, moving on to more and more