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Haskell for complete newbies

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-21 15:40 ID:f+/COkCw

Are there any Haskell tutorials for people who are completely new to programming?

I have a few friends who are interested in learning programming, and they're asking me what language they should start with. Now, I believe that if taught correctly, a functional language is the best way to start learning, but it seems that all Haskell tutorials are targeted towards people who already have experience in procedural programming. Am I wrong? If so, what would you recommend?

Name: Anonymous 2007-05-22 2:23 ID:Bo/FMwWO

>>7
Except he has this penchant for using weird typographical conventions in example code. So you can't just type the examples in and hope them to work, since there's no key for the mathspeakically correct inequality operator on most keyboards... or for the arrow that points to the left ("<-") symbol.

Good shit, otherwise. Explains strictness and the difference between foldr and foldl pretty well. I wish he'd used seq rather than rolling his own "strict" function, but that's rather minor in the real world.

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