learn haskell

They say that you don’t understand something until you can explain it. So I wrote an article about understanding monads via Python list comprehensions . I submitted it to http://programming.reddit.com, and got some very nice feedback, so I was pretty pleased.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading and experimenting with ghci/hugs/emacs, and I have to say from what I’ve read and tried so far, Haskell is easily the most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing language I’ve tried—it really is very elegant, both in terms of concepts and how it looks on the page (though in both ways it is quite alien if you only know Algol family languages).

Haskell is like executable maths, with all the power that brings, but with plenty of sugar and constructs for doing programming. As maths, it also gets to benefit from the research done by clever mathematicians across the world, in ways that simply would never apply to other languages, which are really dressed-up assembly code in comparison.

What I need now is a real programming task that I need Haskell for.