Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-07 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Sep 7, 2007, at 14:37 , Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: Brent Yorgey wrote: Then one day he met someone else who said she was also a race car driver, but her car was different -- she called it a "Haskar". It had a top speed of 400 miles per hour, no steering wheel (you just lean whichever way

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-07 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
Brent Yorgey wrote: Then one day he met someone else who said she was also a race car driver, but her car was different -- she called it a "Haskar". It had a top speed of 400 miles per hour, no steering wheel (you just lean whichever way you want to go, she said), I wish I could just lean le

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-07 Thread Wouter Swierstra
Hi Chris, I should also point out that the wiki has a lot of really useful links: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell Good luck, Wouter This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Harper
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Harper > Sent: September-06-07 12:21 PM > To: Chris Saunders > Cc: haskelll-cafe > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice > > No, that book is not outdated. Can you give an example of what's not > working for y

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-06 Thread Chris Saunders
D] On Behalf Of Tom Harper Sent: September-06-07 12:21 PM To: Chris Saunders Cc: haskelll-cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice No, that book is not outdated. Can you give an example of what's not working for you? -- Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 949 235 0

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-06 Thread Brent Yorgey
On 9/6/07, Chris Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So far I'm finding Haskell difficult – I may be too thick. > Once upon a time there was a young man who wanted to be a race car driver. He bought an old, junky car with a souped-up engine (after all, that's what all his friends were using).

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Learning advice

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Harper
No, that book is not outdated. Can you give an example of what's not working for you? On 9/6/07, Chris Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I wish to learn Haskell. I purchased a book – An Introduction to Functional > Programming Systems Using Haskell but I think this might be too outda