A taste of Haskell (tutorial)

I was lucky enough to be able to give a three-hour tutorial on Haskell at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2007, in Portland.

The whole thing was videoed. If you watch the video you'll want to have the slides open in a different window, because the camera seldom shows the slide.

Video Part 1, and Part 2. A huge thank-you to Galois Inc, for making the video happen.
Slides PDF.
Wiki talk page for discussion

Abstract

Haskell is the world's leading purely functional programming language that offers a radical and elegant attack on the whole business of writing programs. In the last two or three years there has been an explosion of interest in Haskell, and it is now being used for a bewildering variety of applications.

In this tutorial, I will try to show you why programming in Haskell is such fun, and how it makes you think about programming in a new way.

I'm going to use xmonad as my running example; it's an X11 window manager written entirely in 500 lines of Haskell. Based on xmonad I will show you how to

write functional programs
test them using QuickCheck
write imperative programs
call foreign functions
use Haskell for scripting applications

I won't assume you know any functional programming at all, but I will assume that you are an experienced professional programmer, so I will move along quite briskly.