> historically the response to beginner questions has been something along the lines of, "go read this paper" a la Haskell. There's a lot of tutorials in Haske

> historically the response to beginner questions has been something along the lines of, "go read this paper" a la Haskell. There's a lot of tutorials in Haskell that are papers, but if you go to #haskell or ask on stack overflow, the answer to questions are rarely "go read this paper", at least in my experience (even for some pretty deep type-level programming stuff).