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To someone marginally skilled at logical thinking Haskell appears to be the first choice as the first programming language. I'm offering two experiences as a reference:
* A friend of mine with no technical and no math background wanted to learn programming. I decided to go with Haskell, because it would be an interesting experiment.
The experiment turned out to be very successful.
I suspect that most experiments in teaching programming languages with one-to-one tuition are! If the guy had posted saying "Hey, I have a friend who knows Haskell really well and wants to teach me" then I'd have said that he should very seriously consider it.
Your message is not related to my post, and a good indication is that the given quote is incomplete even for the purpose of making the point of that particular experiment. Then that point alone is also not enough either, because there is a strong connection between the two examples I mentioned. All in all you apparently didn't understand a word of my post. My statement is not about teaching, it's about learning and I'm pretty sure it is very solid. On the other hand, your suggestion to avoid Haskell unless you have a high IQ or math/formal logic background is entirely unfounded. If you make a claim like this, you should provide some reasoning. Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/