Paul Moore wrote:
Apfelmus, Heinrich wrote:
How to learn? The options are, in order of decreasing effectiveness
university course teacher in person book irc mailing list online tutorial haskell wiki haddock documentation
Reason by analogy from known/similar areas. I think the point here is that for Haskell, this is more possible for mathematicians than for programmers. And that's an imbalance that may need to be addressed (depending on who you want to encourage to learn).
But I agree that reasoning by analogy is not a very good way of learning. And I think it's been established that the real issue here is the documentation - complete explanations and better discoverability[1] are needed.
Yes, agreed. However, I would say that the word "documentation" does not apply anymore, it's more "subject of study". What I want to say is that to some extend, Haskell is not only similar to mathematics, it /is/ mathematics, so programmers have to learn mathematics. Traditionally, this is done in university courses or with books, I'm not sure whether learning mathematics via internet tutorials on the computer screen works. Regards, apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com