7 May
2005
7 May
'05
1:08 p.m.
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:40:55PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
In your opinion, do you think Haskell is appropriate for someone with zero math background? I can't imagine how I'd explain something like currying to someone who doesn't know math.
I'd think it'd be pretty easy for a non-mathy non-programmer person to learn (based on pure speculation--I've never taught haskell). There is a sort of "basic core" of haskell that is pretty easy, and most of the higher level concepts are a sort of nicer way to say the same thing. For example, while lambda expressions are very nice, it's always possible to do the same thing by declaring a named function in a let or where clause. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net