> "Sean Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> Intro courses in the sciences are often intended to weed out the people
Ha, it appears they use this example to teach manipulation of arrays at least in the Oxford University: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/comp150fp/archive/richard-bird/sudoku.pdf "The Sudoku problem provides an ideal classroom example with which to illustrate manipulations of arrays as well as manipulation of programs. Indeed, the pearl is more or less a straightforward transcription of two lectures I gave to first-year undergraduates, omitting most of the calculations «snip»" "«snip» and this is the pedagogic value of the exercise, we have gone for wholemeal programming, identifying these structures as complete entities in themselves. There are other Sudoku solvers out there, but the present one certainly seems one of the clearest and simplest." So the typed, functional, scary babby eating Haskell solution is more or less the clearest and simplest for 1st year students. I'm guessing that 20 … 50% of D users cannot comprehend the solution.
