Re: [Haskell-cafe] Infrastructure for testing the impact of a Functor/Applicative/Monad hierarchy
Has anyone surveyed the in-print textbooks, tutorials, or tried to assess how much Haskell (H98, H2010, Glasgow Haskell?) is used in teaching? Having the wrong hierarchy is a minor annoyance to us members of the cognoscenti, but a change outside a revision of the language standard could leave a lot of beginners and the teaching material they rely on stranded.
There is a chicken and the egg problem with this argument.
Historically Haskell' has only considered changes that have been actually
implemented.
I would encourage the language standard to follow suit, but we survived a
similar autocratic minor change to Num with very little ecosystem
disruption.
-Edward
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Stephen Tetley
Has anyone surveyed the in-print textbooks, tutorials, or tried to assess how much Haskell (H98, H2010, Glasgow Haskell?) is used in teaching?
Having the wrong hierarchy is a minor annoyance to us members of the cognoscenti, but a change outside a revision of the language standard could leave a lot of beginners and the teaching material they rely on stranded.
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