Am Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2005 20:07 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: > [...] > It's sometimes beneficial to "lie" a bit when starting out. Perhaps > say something like "this is a simplified view of things, for all the > gory details see chapter 19". > > Monadic IO is pretty darn cool, sadly that means that many tutorial > authors are tempted to spend pages upon pages explaining exactly why > it's cool and how it works, but that is NOT what most people starting > out with the language need to read. > > I'm still looking for a good *practical* tutorial that I could > recommend to newcomers. > IO, data types and QuickCheck in the very first chapter, I say! Real > program examples from the get go, and go into the theory on why this > has been hard in FP before Haskell (or Monadic IO rather) much much > later, so as to not scare people away.
I think that there are cases where it's better to start with ordinary functional programming and come to I/O later. In my opinion, an example case would be teaching Haskell at a university. > /S /W _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
