[Haskell-cafe] Re: Tutorial uploaded

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Creighton Hogg wrote:

> I agree with this wholeheartedly.  When I first started
> playing with Haskell, some of the tutorials made it look
> like it was very difficult to do anything practical with it
> because doing real input and output seemed like an "advanced
> topic".

The drawback is that I saw many Haskell programs implemented with IO
read/write functions which could be easily implemented without IO, using
laziness.