On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:56 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Lennart Augustsson wrote: > > Most people don't understand pure functional programming either. Does > > that mean we should introduce unrestricted side effects in Haskell? > > The key is to introduce concepts to them in terms they can understand. > > You introduce it one way to experienced abstract mathematicians, and a > completely different way to experienced Perl hackers. I wouldn't expect > a mathematician to grok Perl, and I wouldn't expect $PERL_HACKER to grok > abstract math. People have different backgrounds to draw upon, and we > are under-serving one community.
False. We are failing to meet the un-realistic expectations of advanced Perl/Python/Ruby/C/C++/Java/any other imperative language programmers as to the ease with which they should be able to learn Haskell. jcc _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
