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From: Tim Attwood
Subject: Re: [Plug] It's finally here!
Date: 11 Oct 2008 05:27:11
Message: <48f0716f$1@news.povray.org>
I just skimmed it, and it seems very comprehesive.
It doesn't address monads until the half-way point,
and then doesn't dwell on it long, and it has lots of
concrete examples of how to use some of the more
important libraries.


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From: Mueen Nawaz
Subject: Re: [Plug] It's finally here!
Date: 11 Oct 2008 09:09:26
Message: <48f0a586@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Indeed. I've sat down to write a tutorial myself several times. It
> always seems to degenerate into "oh, wait, I can't use that as an
> example because it requires this *other* feature that I didn't meantion
> yet..."

	Recursive tutorial for a recursive language...?


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: [Plug] It's finally here!
Date: 13 Oct 2008 04:11:29
Message: <48f302b1$1@news.povray.org>
Mueen Nawaz wrote:

> 	Recursive tutorial for a recursive language...?

LOL! I like it...


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: [Plug] It's finally here!
Date: 17 Oct 2008 07:14:13
Message: <48f87385$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

This book gets stranger and stranger.

It explains how to work the compiler in the middle of a lesson on 
writing a simple library. It goes through a lengthy explanation of how 
to manually invoke all the compilation states, rather than using the 
trivially easy automated compilation system. And it generally seems to 
be introducing concepts here, there and everywhere in no coherant order.

Most puzzling. I was hoping for better than this...

[I'm still hoping the chapters on "practical stuff" might actually tell 
me something I don't already know - like, for example, how to make 
useful libraries actually compile on Windoze...]


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: [Plug] It's finally here!
Date: 17 Oct 2008 10:37:18
Message: <48f8a31e$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> This book gets stranger and stranger.
> 
> It explains how to work the compiler in the middle of a lesson on 
> writing a simple library. It goes through a lengthy explanation of how 
> to manually invoke all the compilation states, rather than using the 
> trivially easy automated compilation system. And it generally seems to 
> be introducing concepts here, there and everywhere in no coherant order.

Impressive. It spends a whole chapter showing you how to develop a 
library, how to compile it the hard way, and how to construct a Cabal 
package from it - but it *doesn't* mention how to upload this package 
onto Hackage, the central Haskell online package database. What's some 
omission, eh? (I mean, *why* would you bother to package something for 
distribution other than to distribute it??)

It also fails to mention the easy compilation method anywhere. Genius.


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