-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/27/11 10:28 , aditya siram wrote:
Haskell's immutability is good for mathematics but doing anything else takes a great deal of up-front patience and perseverance, two very rare qualities in that demographic if my own childhood is any indication.
Isn't there already a body of evidence that people who've never been exposed to procedural languages find functional programming to be much more natural? (I vaguely recall trying to teach someone at a summer camp what = did in BASIC; they were using the equational meaning, and "assignment" wasn't clicking with them at all.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1E9hIACgkQIn7hlCsL25WStwCgnCXonPchAQtXjmC1YOz8fGql NL4AnRZQXY4oIXMZ3I0yK6jVTZt6DOOY =i8cJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----