Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

On 29/08/2015, at 4:17 pm, M Farkas-Dyck wrote:

Actually we ought to start with semiconductor physics, VLSI fabrication, and such. cuz that's how current computers work.

I did start a computer architecture lecture once with a 10 minute explanation of what a field effect transistor does. The physicist in me was only partly appeased by the consideration that this was all the students were _ever_ going to be told about what was really going on underneath. Some of the students thanked me for it. Some, didn't. As for Python, remember that the people who are praising Python as an initial language are probably comparing it with Java or C++.