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It's astonishing to me that a computer science student wrote such a good book. It's funny, witty, the drawings are great, and the author explains quite complicated concepts of functional programming very clearly. I've already read this book a year ago online, yet I'm still gonna buy it just to support the author.

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I went through a decent portion of it online a while back myself, and I ended up grabbing it during O'Reilly's funding drive for Japan both for that effort and to support the author.

Of the Haskell tutorials/books I've read it made me feel like I was getting more out of it (main other one I read was RWH, which isn't bad but felt... dry? and was a tough push).

Wasn't there some virtual pushing and shoving over whether this was just a gross rip-off of a python book? Or am I confusing it with another? (Nitpicks welcome for once, so long as you can provide a link to the thing I was thinking of :D )

it's kind of inspired by Why's ruby guide, because that's also a sort of funny-ish programming book with pictures, but i think our style is different enough.

I'm probably thinking of some other python inspired book then. Well done for making a contribution to the advancement of knowledge etc.

You might be thinking of Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way", which started a spat between him and Mark Pilgrim over the best way to teach Python. It was also ripped off to make a Ruby version later, which Zed got pretty annoyed at (FWIW, the Ruby version basically replaced the Python examples with Ruby, while not changing the explanations - which were very much tied to Python).

However, none of that has anything to do with Learn You a Haskell, which looks excellent and will probably mean I don't make my savings goal next week :<.

Zed Shaw wrote "Learn Python The Hard Way", and then E. Martin started to write "Learn Ruby The Hard Way", without asking permission to copy the text.

There's a second book, started before LPTHW and LRTHW, called Learn You The Ruby, by me. But I haven't finished it :(

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