Mine arrives in two days; I can't wait! :) Thanks for all your hard work, and to all the members of the community which provided comments/suggestions to improve the book. __ Donnie Jones
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Good evening - > > John Goerzen, Don Stewart and I are delighted to announce the > availability of our book, "Real World Haskell". It is 710 pages long, > and published by O'Reilly Media. > > This is the first book to comprehensively cover modern Haskell > programming. From an introduction to functional programming, it > focuses on teaching through many worked examples. We discuss the > "awkward squad" of I/O, concurrency, and exceptions. We cover network > programming, databases, and system hacking. We motivate and work with > monoids, applicative functors, monads, and monad transformers. We show > you how to debug code, and how to ship well-tested software. > > Better yet, the book is available under a Creative Commons license, so > you can read as much of it as you please before you buy: > http://book.realworldhaskell.org/ We developed this book with the > enthusiastic and voluble support of the Haskell community, and we are > proud to share our work in a fashion that will help newcomers to our > field. > > And best of all, if you order now (at least in North America), you can > have a copy of the book in your hands in a matter of days. > > Thank you from all of us to our friends in the Haskell world who have > been so generous with their feedback and kind words! > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell >
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