[Haskell-cafe] Writing "Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'"

[Patrick Mulder]

In my opinion it would be important to increase the
understanding about "semantics" and "processes". And
it would be good to introduce the concepts in a
similar way as Profokiev introduces the sound of
classical music in "Peter and the Wolf". If my
suspicion is correct, functional programming would be
very close to composing classical music (or concurrent
algorithms and processes). Has anyone of you similar
thoughts on music and programming ?  What are the
basic ingredients for making abstractions (like in
music rythm, keys, tempo, ...) ? It would be useful to
express different ways of expression by explaining
first "semantics" of processes and abstractions.

--- Kirsten Chevalier <catamorphism at gmail.com>
schrieb:

> It's not as if this is the first time that this has
> been suggested,
> but some people have suggested that a practical book
> about Haskell
> would be a good idea. I agree. Some people have also
> suggested that
> the right moment for this hasn't arrived yet, and I
> see that as a
> challenge.
> 
> I'm willing to take the lead in at least thinking
> about what such a
> book might look like. I'm potentially about to have
> some free time for
> such things, and am still young and foolish enough
> to think that
> writing a book would be a good idea.
> 
> Of course, there are many good Haskell books out
> there already, but
> many of them are intended as class textbooks or are
> aimed at more
> theoretical-minded people. There's nothing wrong
> with that, but I
> think that it would be nice if a friendly,
> conversational, informal
> book about Haskell existed, since after all this is
> such a friendly
> and informal community. (If there already is a book
> like this, point
> it out, but I get the impression there's not.)
> 
> There's also excellent Haskell documentation
> available on the web
> already, but people like to buy books and they like
> to have an
> artifact that they can hold in their hands without
> getting laser
> printer toner all over themselves.
> 
> But if I were going to do this, I'd need all the
> help I could get, so
> if you're interested in working with me on this,
> email me off-list and
> we'll talk. Don't feel like you need to be named
> "Simon" for this; I
> don't think you need to be a Haskell guru to
> contribute to a book like
> this (I know I'm not one), though it wouldn't hurt.
> Being interested
> in good writing and explaining things to a wider
> audience is more
> important. And, the more people who are interested
> in working on this,
> the more we can all pool our various talents to
> create something
> awesome.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kirsten
> 
> -- 
> Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier at alum.wellesley.edu
> *Often in error, never in doubt
> "Everyone's too stupid." -- _Ghost World_
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