Re: [OT] Re: Using Haskell for teaching [was: Help me decide D or C]

2019-08-03 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 23:24 -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […] > The university I went to had an undergrad class on programming paradigms > that I _think_ was required (maybe two even), but it was definitely just the > focus of a small number of classes, whereas my

Re: [OT] Re: Using Haskell for teaching [was: Help me decide D or C]

2019-08-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, August 2, 2019 11:05:13 AM MDT Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 10:25 -0600, Jonathan M Davis via > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > > […] > > > My feeling is that functional languages are likely to be a very poor > > place for most folks to start

[OT] Re: Using Haskell for teaching [was: Help me decide D or C]

2019-08-02 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 10:25 -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > […] > My feeling is that functional languages are likely to be a very poor place > for most folks to start learning, much as I think that they're great for > someone to learn and work with at some point. I have