-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/30/11 00:24 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Isn't there already a body of evidence that people who've never been exposed to procedural languages find functional programming to be much more natural?
Also worth pointing out is that kids get math flash cards early, at least here in the US; while they're obviously trivial, they're still both equational and algebraic. So they're very probably already used to that meaning, and systems of equations and ADTs are actually fairly easy jumps. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1E92EACgkQIn7hlCsL25WsWwCcDyoxsulKYstH2bXdeUBu/RB0 3A4AoL59wMMxMsSt032bXQ0ceQ+TDJUB =amOK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----