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I haven't gone through all of the SoH materials, but FPComplete articles tend to be pretty good. Some articles are better than others, none left me feeling like I wasted my time, and some are excellent. I'm really glad to see FPComplete spinning up. I hope they come out with a conference or two (like Cognitect with Clojure/conj).

Real World Haskell is solid and was pretty comprehensive for system programming at the time (2008) but it desperately needs an update. Some of the libraries (e.g. persistent) have moved pretty far from it, web programming in Haskell has come a long way over the past few years, and applicative functors weren't even on the map yet.

Real World Haskell is a good resource but it shouldn't be your only resource. Then again, part of the fun and challenge of learning Haskell is that there's so much depth to the language that no single resource suffices.

Stephen Diehl's "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell" ( http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/ ) is comprehensive and modern, but not really a beginner resource.



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