On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:56 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
Lennart Augustsson wrote:
Most people don't understand pure functional programming either. Does that mean we should introduce unrestricted side effects in Haskell?
The key is to introduce concepts to them in terms they can understand.
You introduce it one way to experienced abstract mathematicians, and a completely different way to experienced Perl hackers. I wouldn't expect a mathematician to grok Perl, and I wouldn't expect $PERL_HACKER to grok abstract math. People have different backgrounds to draw upon, and we are under-serving one community.
False. We are failing to meet the un-realistic expectations of advanced Perl/Python/Ruby/C/C++/Java/any other imperative language programmers as to the ease with which they should be able to learn Haskell. jcc