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

[Graham Klyne]

It's not exactly what you ask for, but I wrote down some of the things I 
learned in my early days with Haskell:
   http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/Learning-Haskell-Notes.html

#g
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At 10:31 07/02/05 -0500, Jacques Carette wrote:
>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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