> Then an Anonymous Coward replyed:
>
> Is their a good online tutorial and reference for Haskell? Last time I
> looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh
> yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would
> behoove those in the communities of less well know languages to provide
> good online instruction and reference material. I'm not going to pop 60
> bucks to learn another language that may or may not meet my needs. Try
> before you buy.
Moldy? I started learning Haskell by reading those papers, and found them
very useful. Most of them are out of date now (and some of them were out of
date then) but it looks like some, at least, are being updated. For example,
at
http://haskell.org/tutorial/
("A Gentle Introduction To Haskell, Version 1.4" by Hudak, Peterson and
Fasel) it says that
> We are working on a version 98 of this tutorial, expanded and updated for
Haskell 98. This new
> version isn't complete yet but is probably a better reference than this
one.
Of course there can never be enough tutorials or documentation for a
programming language, but I don't think Haskell is all that thin on free
learning materials. There is tons of stuff to be found on haskell.org,
certainly enough to get a feel for the language and to motivate someone to
shell out some bucks on a book if it interests them.
--FC
