[darcs-users] performance (was GHC and Darcs)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ashley Moran writes:

 > To rectify this I've bought a copy of Hutton's Programming in Haskell,  
 > which looks like a good introduction, even if it is highly academic.

Yuppers, "academic" is a problem for propagating Haskell.  I got into
a catfight with a Haskell advocate recently (Haskell per se was not
the main issue, though), and tried searching "programming style
Haskell" at amazon.com.  What came back was a long list of conference
proceedings.  Yikes!

 > Someone needs to show that it's easy to do Fun, Cool Stuff in  
 > Haskell.

Google for "Simon Peyton-Jones" and then don't follow any academic-
looking links. :-)  Here's one to start with:

http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/stm/beautiful.pdf

I like the format of the version in /Beautiful Code/, though, and it
does come with a lot of other beautiful code (not in Haskell,
unfortunately).