Not alien, but not like ordering a sausage mcmuffin for breakfast. You'll recognize ideas taken from haskell (list comprehensions, especially) in other languag

Not alien, but not like ordering a sausage mcmuffin for breakfast. You'll recognize ideas taken from haskell (list comprehensions, especially) in other languages but the function definitions (multiple pattern matching clauses/"equations"), may be alien, unless you've looked at erlang, F#, ocaml, scala or some such. You could look at these to get why http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-June/101558.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-June/1015... https://www.fpcomplete.com/page/case-studies https://www.fpcomplete.com/page/case-studies http://elaforge.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-haskell-doesnt-have.html http://elaforge.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-haskell-doesnt-hav... http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112 http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112 http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2908 http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2908 (or a few dozen tutorials: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Learning_Haskell ----------- here's my attempt at organizing the learning process (having lots of places to ask questions (SO, reddit, beginners list, G+) is great http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1b7axp/haskell_homework_helptutor_wanted/c94hvr1 http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1b7axp/haskell_home...