10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
5:43 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Cast
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 17:13 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:05:43 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to the thing it does best.
This is precisely why newcomers flounder.
Newcomers flounder because they expect to keep programming the same way they always have. They should be (and *are*) taught better ways of doing things.
http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/10/18/a-type-based-solution-to-the-str... is a brilliant example of a common workaday problem found in other languages, and solved elegantly in Haskell martin