2010/1/22 Raul Miller <[email protected]>: > My last attempt at beginning Haskell programming foundered on > the "Hello, World!" issue. I will need to carve out some chunks of > time to try again, now that better tutorials are available. I currently > have my eyes on > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours
This particular tutorial is awful to learn Haskell from as a beginner. It tries to be practical by teaching by example, but is lacking any system in presenting the language. It introduces many constructs and library tools at once right at the beginning, while mostly presenting concepts only implicitly. Laziness is not discussed at all, and only barely mentioned twice in the whole text, while it is one of the Haskell's most characteristic features! I would have found it extremely difficult to follow the text if I was really new to the language. Its positioning itself as an introductory tutorial – even for people who don't know programming languages at all – is ridiculous. There are much better texts available in the Learning section on www.haskell.org, more specifically here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell . Of the textbooks, one is available both in printed form and for (free) on-line reading: http://book.realworldhaskell.org . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
