[Haskell-cafe] Top 20 ``things'' to know in Haskell

[Bayley, Alistair]

Were you thinking of something like "[n] Things a Java Programmer Should
Know About Ruby" ?
  http://jimweirich.tadalist.com/lists/public/14055

Perhaps you'd like to start a page on the wiki. A link from here, maybe?
  http://haskell.org/hawiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

The libraries I think I used the most when starting were:

Data.List
Data.Char
Data.Maybe
Data.Either
System.IO (reading and writing files)
System.Environment (for getArgs)
Data.Set
Data.FiniteMap (soon to be replaced)

Of course, a lot of this is already in the Prelude, so you'll be using it
indirectly.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Carette [mailto:carette at mcmaster.ca] 
> Sent: 07 February 2005 15:31
> To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Top 20 ``things'' to know in Haskell
> 
> The recent post of Graham Klyne (below) reminds me that I 
> have meant to ask:
> is there a ``top 20'' things a serious programmer should know 
> when writing
> code in Haskell?  Of course there is a lot of programming 
> language theory
> that would be great to know, but I mean really down-to-earth 
> things like the
> 2 items below (module Maybe, the 'maybe' function).
> 
> The Haskell libraries are quite large, and it is unrealistic 
> to try to get
> familiar with all of them right away.  But getting a 
> ``small'' list would be
> very useful - I think of this as step 2 after one learns to 
> get comfortable
> with a language.  I had done this (for Maple) for training 
> new hires at
> Maplesoft, and I definitely noticed that they became more idiomatic
> programmers faster this way.
> 
> Jacques
> 
> PS: of course, this could already exist on haskell.org and/or 
> the Wiki, but
> not in an 'obvious' enough place as I missed it...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Graham Klyne
> Sent: February 7, 2005 10:09 AM
> To: Yuri D'Elia; haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] [newbye] 'Just a'
> 
> You might also be interested in the library function 'maybe':
>    http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/standard-prelude.html#$vmaybe
> 
> or maybe (sic) Maybe.fromMaybe in:
>    http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/maybe.html
> 
> #g

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