15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
11:56 a.m.
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. -- John