Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-30 Thread jim burton
Dave-86 wrote: Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org and elsewhere explaining IO, monads and functors, has anyone considered publishing a comprehensive book explaining those subjects? (I am trying to read all the material online, but books are easier to read and don't

[Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-29 Thread Dominic Steinitz
On 3/27/07, Dave at haskell.org Dave at haskell.org wrote: Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org and elsewhere explaining IO, monads and functors, has anyone considered publishing a comprehensive book explaining those subjects? (I am trying to read all the material online,

[Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Dave
Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org and elsewhere explaining IO, monads and functors, has anyone considered publishing a comprehensive book explaining those subjects? (I am trying to read all the material online, but books are easier to read and don't require sitting in front of a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Creighton Hogg
On 3/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org and elsewhere explaining IO, monads and functors, has anyone considered publishing a comprehensive book explaining those subjects? (I am trying to read all the material online, but books

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Dan Piponi
On 3/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org and elsewhere explaining IO, monads and functors, has anyone considered publishing a comprehensive book explaining those subjects? (I am trying to read all the material online, but books

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Andrzej Jaworski
Categories for the Working Mathematician a couple of months ago, and while it sometimes takes a bit of work it's a very good introduction. The only caution I have is that if you don't have that strong of a math background, or hadn't done it in a few years (like myself), you may have to lookup

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Creighton Hogg
On 3/27/07, Dan Piponi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org and elsewhere explaining IO, monads and functors, has anyone considered publishing a comprehensive book explaining those subjects? (I am

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Derek Elkins
Creighton Hogg wrote: On 3/27/07, *Dan Piponi* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the amount of material posted at haskell.org http://haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Andrzej Jaworski
Haskell borrows from CT but it is too much engineered to be a model for computational CT. However you can study it with CT: http://www.cs.ut.ee/~varmo/papers/thesis.pdf ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Monad/Functor Book

2007-03-27 Thread Claus Reinke
I've thought about writing extended tutorials on the relationship between Haskell programming and category theory you might find this a useful reference/starting point then: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/62964.html An Introduction to Category Theory, Category Theory Monads, and Their