Re: Learning Haskell and FP

2001-01-08 Thread Benjamin L. Russell
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:26:19 -0500 (EST) Patrick M Doane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I think a really good beginner's tutorial on I/O could be started from this paper: - Start immediately with using the 'do expression' and don't worry about the history that led to its

Re: Learning Haskell and FP

2001-01-08 Thread Theodore Norvell
Erik Meijer wrote: Nope, I also think that Haskell is the world's finest *imperative* language (and the world's best functional language as well). The beauty of monads is that you can encapsulate imperative actions as first class values, ie they have the same status as functions, lists, ...