21 May
2013
21 May
'13
8:24 a.m.
On 21 May 2013 18:22, Henning Thielemann
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:
2) does the change make learning the language more challenging? No. In fact, i've encountered *many* more smart people getting confused as to why the map / fold etc in prelude are all list specific than i've seen people struggle with type classes.
The Haskell beginners I know, even have problems with 'map' and even more 'fold' being higher order functions.
Perhaps such novice programmers should be taught using a Haskell subset or different language, such as Helium or Elm. Conrad.