Have you considered say proposing a class on theorem proving that uses coq?
www.*coq*.inria.fr http://www.coq.inria.fr . Such a class would entail
teaching how to program using the coq term language, which is itself a pure
functional language, albeit one with some restrictions related to everything
impure. As a matter of course in such a class you would naturally also
mention that there are languages such as haskell which lack such
restrictions/ have clever ways around them.
-Carter
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Petr Pudlak
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:36:27AM -0400, Carter Schonwald wrote:
are you a student (undergrad or grad) or faculty (junior or senior)? These are all very different scenarios and accordingly different goals are realistic.
I'm a faculty member (postdoc). I've been working in the field of automated theorem proving, but for about a year I'm also very interested in Haskell and in general in the theory behind functional languages. Since I find FP to be a very important programming concept, I'd like to achieve that we start teaching it at the university.
Petr