[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Cookbook?

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

ithika:
> Quoth Paul Moore, nevermore,
> > why a newcomer like me shouldn't do this - in many ways, it's better
> > to start with some examples from a newcomer's perspective ("these are
> > the sort of things I found useful") to show the more experienced
> > people what we're looking for.
> 
> I agree with this. I think many people start with the idea of simple
> text processing or something (like summing a list of numbers from a text file, say) but that stuff isn't really covered because it's so trivial. 
> But it can be difficult to realise how trivial it is. :)

Hey, we have a whole page for that program!

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shootout/SumFile

-- Don