[Haskell-cafe] Re: Non-technical Haskell question

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| I also have a very small start on a "haskell for hackers" ("hackers"
in
| the non-evil sense) sort of document.  One this doesn't ignore I/O as
| "hard" or "unimportant".  I/O in Haskell doesn't suck.  It's just that
a
| lot of people in the community don't have it as a high priority, I
| think.

As a shameless plug, have you tried "Tackling the awkward squad?".
Indeed I/O in Haskell doesn't suck.

	http://research.microsoft.com/%7Esimonpj/papers/marktoberdorf

Simon