[Haskell-beginners] System administration using Haskell

[Brent Yorgey]

See if you can find some interesting open-source Haskell projects that
involve the sort of "real-world" code you're interested in, and see if
you can fix some small bugs, improve the documentation, etc.  That
will give you some practice writing real code, but it's ten times
easier if you don't have to start absolutely from scratch.

-Brent

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 05:29:08PM +0000, Kelleher, Kevin wrote:
> After more than two decades using the C-family of languages
> (C, C++, Java, C#, Perl, unix shells), I've been trying to learn
> Haskell.  Each time I've begun with enthusiasm, and eventually
> run out of gas before I've gotten to writing real code. Haskell's
> learning curve is not very steep, but it is very long. 
> I haven't yet gotten to the things I do the most, which all 
> involve side-effects: mostly actions on directories and files,
> as well as calls to system utilities or other pieces of software.
> 
> I'm working my way through "Real Life Haskell" and watching
> Erick Meijer's lectures, but I'm beginning to fear I'll run
> out of gas again if I can't write some programs that touch
> the real world.
> 
> Are there any tutorials or other material that will get me
> going in that area?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Kevin
> 
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