[Haskell-beginners] How to think in Haskell

[Brent Yorgey]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:41:24PM +0100, Luca Ciciriello wrote:
> Hi, here my path (in correct order) I followed to learn to think functionally:
> 
> 1) Curry-Howard Isomorphism
> 2) Type Theory & Functional Programming
> 3) The Hindley-Milner Type inference algorithm
> 4) Basic Category Theory
> 5) Notions of computation and monads
> 6) Denotational semantics
> 7) Monads for functional programming
> 8) Theorems for free.
> 9) A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class

These are all wonderful topics.  But I strongly disagree with the
notion that one must understand all of these before even starting a
Haskell tutorial (!), or even that one must understand all of these to
be able to "think functionally" in some sense.

-Brent