On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
Hello.
My institution is currently revising the curriculum for Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science. One point of interest is the role of programming, and especially that of the functional paradigm. I'd like to compare our plans to other existing curricula.
The main critique raised implicitely or explicitely by some of my colleagues here is nicely summarized in http://www.galois.com/cufp/ :
"industry folks complain that there aren't enough FP folks being produced by schools, and educators complain that students don't see any point in studying FP if there are no jobs to be had."
May I ask your exposition more about this? What field are those industry folks in? What applications are the industry folks developing with fp languages? Thanks in advance K. Choi PS. I am a person who hope to be a teacher. And I strongly want to teach and to use one of fp languages, if I am lucky to be so, in a barren environment where nobody knows Haskell, ML, Scheme, and etc., unfortunately.
So if you are teaching (or studying) at a German Fachhochschule (technical university, sort of), I'd like to know your opinion (and your institution's opinion). (Please reply to me, not to this list. Is there a better place for this discussion?)
Vielen Dank (thanks)!