I warmly recommend trying out Simon Marlow's book "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929 http://ch

I warmly recommend trying out Simon Marlow's book "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929 http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929 I've a number of friends for whom haskell didn't "click" until they read Simon's book. even ignoring the haskell bits, its also a great walk through of different paradigms of concurrent and parallel programming with working code.