Reading "The Haskell School of Music" still worth it?
I'm a NixOS user with very minimal experience in programming, through nix I've grown a strong interest in the idea of functional programming and thus have gotten the idea of learning haskell in my head. Given that I'm also a music major in college when I found out about this book I thought the stars had aligned in my favor. However this is the second (third?) time across several weeks I've tried to setup and install it's Euterpea and HSoM library and every time I come up with a new error. I finally gave up and tried to install it in an Ubuntu vm but that didn't work either as I'm getting C compilation errors with PortMidi. I actually did get it to install and import into ghci on NixOS but I get no sound from the synthesizer.
Given that the book is rather dated (released 8 years ago), I'm beginning to wonder if my time would be better spent using a more recent book to learn haskell instead.
Any thoughts would be appreciated!