I'm almost finished with 'Learn You a Haskell For Great Good'. (gotta love the name)
After this it's on to 'Real World Haskell'. I ordered it in dead-tree form and hope to have it before I finish the first book.
To further soak myself in Haskell, I've decided to switch to XMonad as my window manager. The fact that I had a lot of trouble getting StumpWM running on my freshly reinstalled laptop (x86_64 this time) helped a lot ofcourse.
(I'm staying on the stumpwm IRC channel though, I love those guys ;-) )
'The Pragmatic Programmer' tells us to learn a new language every year. Well for me, that's about true in the last couple of years. But frankly, I'm not looking to learn a couple dozen new languages, I'm trying to find one I really like and can be used for practical problems.
Haskell isn't really a language that seems very practical at first glance. But little by little, it's practical side is showing and I'm guessing there's a lot more to come. I'll give it a while. If I can't get stuff done with it, I'll continue my search :-)
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