[Haskell-cafe] Good Haskell introduction for an Ocaml programmer?

[Cale Gibbard]

On 12/12/06, Brian Hurt <bhurt at spnz.org> wrote:
> Greetings, all.  I'm an experienced Ocaml programmer, looking to broaden
> my horizons yet further and pick up Haskell, and I'm wondering if there's
> a good introduction to Haskell for me.

I think that O'Caml programmers would be one audience where I'd start
with the "Gentle Introduction" (It's doesn't seem nearly gentle enough
to the imperative-minded, but should be fine for someone used to
functional programming).

http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/

You're likely to find YAHT boring, but I think it may still be a good
idea to skim it a bit. Also, you might like reading some specialised
tutorials directly.

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction_to_IO -- a brief 5 minute
introduction I wrote about  how we think about IO in Haskell.

My favourite monad tutorials:
http://www.nomaware.com/monads/html/index.html -- This is really
thorough and mostly very well written, though there are places where
the examples are both highly contrived and hard to comprehend due to
excessive use of the continuation monad.
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Monads_as_containers -- this one I
wrote myself, and takes a somewhat different approach to things than
most others, treating monads as an abstraction of container types
rather than of types of computation.

These are just some of my personal recommendations, but there's a lot
of stuff that's out there. There are some decent guides to what's
available on the wiki:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers -- There's actually
quite a lot of introductory material in papers, because writers often
can't assume that their audience is intimately familiar with Haskell
already, though they may assume a certain level of familiarity with CS
in general.

Also, make sure you fire up an IRC client and join us at #haskell on
irc.freenode.org. There are lots of friendly people there who are
always happy to discuss things, answer questions (don't worry if they
seem simple), and point you at resources.

Welcome to the list and have fun learning Haskell!

 - Cale