the real world of Haskell books (Re: [Haskell-cafe] Online Real World Haskell, problem with Sqlite3 chapters)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Sep 5 17:46:44 EDT 2008


On 2008 Sep 5, at 12:45, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Claus Reinke  
> <claus.reinke at talk21.com> wrote:
>> Seriously, though, what is the RWH authors' plan for tackling
>> the eternal frustration of Haskell book authors, a moving target?
>
> Other tech books face the same problem, which, if they sell
> successfully and the authors haven't moved into caves afterwards to
> recover, they address with subsequent editions. If readers find that

Errata pages are common; as authors become more aware of the Internet,  
they often put updates in the same place.

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