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Learn Haskell! I've been using learnyouahaskell.com, book.realworldhaskell.org, and haskell.org/haskellwiki. If you get stuck, the people who hang out on #haskell (freenode) are both helpful and brilliant.

Learning Python and Scheme was fun. Learning Haskell feels like being in an 80s training montage. One day you're a nobody, the next day you're an FP-wielding superhero.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications is good for inspiration.

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A friend and I recently just started learning Haskell, and as our first project we are going to implement the kademlia DHT algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia ). If anyone wants to learn some Haskell and work on a dht algorithm, feel free to shoot me an email or message me on github. The repo for the project is at http://github.com/johngunderman/buckets-dht .

On a side note, I'm learning Haskell through the book Real World Haskell, and it is the best resource I've found so far (I've looked through "Write yourself a scheme", "learn you a haskell for great good", and "Yet another Haskell Tutorial"). Of course, it is the first one I've actually had in printed form, and that probably made a huge difference.

As you mentioned, #haskell has been a tremendous resource. I would highly recommend anyone interested in learning haskell to lurk on that channel.

Mine is get Haskell code into Production. By any means necessary.

Sweet! Thanks for the links!

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