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Re: Book on Haskell

From shishir <shishir.pandey@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.haskell
Subject Re: Book on Haskell
Date 2012-01-30 11:12 -0800
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Hi Hans,

Yes, working around the sarcasm, we want to learn to program in Haskell, but we find a book much easier to manage.

You are correct in suggesting that we could take the tutorial - perhaps a print out of it, but it'd not be the same thing as a book. The books, especially the ones I mentioned, offer a great advantage for people like me that they 
incorporate some exercises which we could use to gauge our understanding of the concepts. 

You can argue that we can come up with questions of our own, which we may try solving, or perhaps try solving some problem which we have solved in some language of our choice again, except this time with Haskell.It's just that 
with little or no prior experience with functional programming it becomes a tad
difficult to imagine what kind of problems can be best attacked with Haskell. 
I'm an average programmer, with limited intellectual ability so a book can help 
me with finding problems and once I start identifying patterns, connections I'll let go of the crutch.

It would take us quite a bit of time to acquire the kind of fluidity with Haskell that is needed to really grasp the workings of prelude or understand
how basic packages are implemented and why. I do like the idea, and I hope to do that too, in due course of time.

I appreciate your help, and I'll try using a hard copy of the tutorial again.If that doesn't work, I'll start my search for a book again. 

Thank you,
Shishir

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Book on Haskell Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-01-25 16:11 +0000
  Re: Book on Haskell Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-01-25 18:08 +0100
    Re: Book on Haskell shishir <shishir.pandey@gmail.com> - 2012-01-29 04:52 -0800
      Re: Book on Haskell Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-01-29 15:27 +0100
        Re: Book on Haskell Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-01-29 18:51 +0000
          Re: Book on Haskell Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-01-29 20:38 +0100
            Re: Book on Haskell shishir <shishir.pandey@gmail.com> - 2012-01-30 11:12 -0800
              Re: Book on Haskell Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-01-30 20:56 +0100
            Re: Book on Haskell Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-01-31 16:27 +0000
              Re: Book on Haskell Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-01-31 18:52 +0100
  Re: Book on Haskell Rory Wang <hybridthesis@gmail.com> - 2012-01-31 08:55 -0800
    Re: Book on Haskell Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-02-01 18:34 +0000
      Re: Book on Haskell Hubert Wagner <hubert.wagner@udo.edu> - 2012-02-02 10:46 +0100
        Re: Book on Haskell Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-02-02 14:50 +0000

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