[Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki: most popular pages

[Tamas K Papp]

Hi Bulat,

The link from http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning (to
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/haskell/tourofprelude.html) is dead, so is
the one from Books_and_Tutorials.

Furthermore, 

1. I would move it from the Reference to the Introduction section.  A
   reference is something you look at when you know what you are
   looking for.  Also, it is at the bottom of the page, few would
   scroll that far.

2. How would newbies know what the Prelude is?  Some tutorials mention
   it, but it is not emphasized that most functions they use come from
   the Prelude.  Since they do not know that they need the Prelude,
   they are not interested in a tour of it.

Best,

Tamas


On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:01:43PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Tamas,
> 
> Thursday, August 17, 2006, 11:14:22 AM, you wrote:
> 
> >> Haskell (252,505 views)
> >> Introduction (50,091 views) 
> >> Libraries and tools (41,864 views) 
> >> Books and tutorials (40,040 views) 
> >> Language and library specification (32,773 views) 
> >> Haskell in practice (31,698 views) 
> >> Implementations (24,141 views) 
> >> GHC (20,634 views) 
> >> Haskell in 5 steps (16,707 views) 
> >> Learning (14,088 views) 
> >> Hitchhikers guide to Haskell (13,191 views) 
> >> Future (12,754 views)
> 
> > A link to "A tour of the Haskell Prelude" might be very useful for
> > newbies (like me ;-)
> 
> btw, it's listed on Learning page but it seems that newbies don't very
> much like it, preferring to go to Language Specification or at least
> Books page. what you think - why it is so unpopular?
> 
> (i think that language specification is the last thing Haskeller
> should read, just when he goes to implementing his own private Haskell
> compiler :D )
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>