Re: [elm-discuss] What concepts and models did you had to learn in order to be able to write good Elm code?

2016-08-11 Thread John Orford
the two themes I learned were: simplicity & accuracy simplicity: fewer concepts to learn than most languages accuracy: following on from simplicity, lack of 'features' to shoot yourself in the foot, leads to type checking and guarantee goodness On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 at 16:59 Leroy Campbell

[elm-discuss] What concepts and models did you had to learn in order to be able to write good Elm code?

2016-08-11 Thread Leroy Campbell
I'd say learning how to make illegal states unrepresentable. https://vimeo.com/162036084 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[elm-discuss] What concepts and models did you had to learn in order to be able to write good Elm code?

2016-08-11 Thread Peter Damoc
"The fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can't, anything can be painfully difficult.” - Seymour Papert I'm trying to come up with a sorted list of concepts and models that a prospective Elm user needs to learn in order