Simpler Fibonacci function

[Hamilton Richards]

At 10:00 PM -0600 2/8/02, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
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>And as I had pointed out before, that tutorial is not at all the brightest
>piece of introductory documentation when you compare it to certain printed
>texts for Haskell programming language.

That comparison is not valid. In its introduction, the tutorial to which
you refer notes that

   Our goal is to provide a gentle introduction to Haskell
   for someone who has experience with at least one
   other language, preferably a functional language ...
   http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/

The tutorial link in http://www.haskell.org/bookshelf/ bears this caution:

   The title is a bit misleading. Some knowledge of another
   functional programming language is expected.

So the reader is adequately warned that this is not an introduction to
functional programming. One who stumbles into a tutorial for which he is
not yet ready does himself no credit by blaming the tutorial.

--HR



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