Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

I once overheard a conversation of highschool kids who had done a sudoku solver. The seemed pretty impressed by that, and it seems a problem that is relatively well suited for Haskell. You might want to try that.

Just for fun I tried to do the sudoku solver and as you can see it took me a bit over an hour. Not everything is trivial to program. But the consistency checks should be easy to do even for relatively new programmers. Code appended Silvio