Am 09.02.2016 um 14:20 schrieb Rustom Mody:
FP in ACM Curriculum 2013
<http://blog.languager.org/2015/06/functional-programming-moving-target.html>
spells out this – omnibus language – and such fallacies in more detail.
He claims this, but he does not back that up with any arguments.
There's only reference to authority (Peter Naur).
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > On 23 May 2013 07:32, Malcolm Wallace wrote: >> -20 for generalising the Prelude >> +1 for removals from the Prelude >> -1 for adding monomorphic stuff >> +1000 for doing nothing >> >> You are all nuts. :-) > > I don't know if I'd go quite _that_ for as Malcolm for the weightings > for the different proposals... > > But I was speaking with a few other tutors of an introductory > CS/programming course that uses Haskell (note: it's teaching > programming with Haskell, not teaching Haskell per se: for example, > all pattern matchings must be done with case statements as the > lecturer considers top-level pattern matching a Haskell-specific > quirk) about these proposals...
Casey McCann responded:
So in other words, your contention is that the design of the core library of Haskell should be driven by the needs of an introductory programming course, which is not even attempting to teach Haskell specifically, aimed at students who can't even figure out how tab characters work? That's marvelous.