On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:10 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
From the excellent programming blog "Joel on software", a very good text if you need to convince Java or C programmers that functional programming is a A Good Thing.
Probably all the readers of this list will find it brings nothing new (that's perfectly right) but it is oriented towards ordinary programmers :-)
Curiously, I did something similar in my first year Haskell tute this week, which is the first week of semester (though I forgot to include the Swedish chef). My class studied C in the previous semester, so to motivate Haskell I got them to implement a polymorphic zipWith in C. I've put the tutorial on my web page in case anyone is curious: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~bjpop/ Under the heading: "433-152 (Zipping Lists)" Cheers, Bernie.