Pick a new book

[Jeremy W. Sherman]

Based on this book review
(http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/03/18/book-review-parallel-and-concurrent-programming-in-haskell/),
I'm tempted to pick up Simon Marlow's "Parallel and Concurrent
Programming in Haskell".

You can read the book for free online:
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929

Unlike the last book:

- Setup is sane. Install Haskell Platform, unpack package that's
actually maintained, build.
- There's runnable sample code.
- The book has been edited, copy-edited, and published for consumption
by people other than graduate students working under the author. :)

The subject matter – how do we deal with concurrency in a functional
programming fashion? – forms an interesting counterpart to
ReactiveCocoa's focus on the user interface, if you're coming from
Cocoa-land. If you're not coming from there, I think you'll still find
the subject interesting.

If you worry you don't know enough Haskell, well, that's what this
listserv is for: Asking questions along the way and learning together.
:)

But I'd like to get 3 people to commit to doing some reading,
otherwise we might as well pick something else.

Thoughts?
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Jeremy W. Sherman
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