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)! > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
