Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 03:01 -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
Charles,
Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but it is
pretty difficult for a beginner. In fact, it is pretty difficult for
anyone to learn in my experience, because it has so many
I believe that from Scheme to Haskell is a natural transition, as I
made the same transition myself. If you grasp the fundamental concepts
of Scheme, Haskell seems like a step up. I will describe Haskell in
terms of Scheme:
# Haskell programs are more correct from the ground up
Scheme will let
In an ideal world, Haskell would be a perfect first programming language.
But consider: If someone without any programming background learns
Haskell as first language, she or he might have big problems using any
other language after that. Unlearning what you can do with Haskell is
much harder
dvde:
In an ideal world, Haskell would be a perfect first programming language.
But consider: If someone without any programming background learns
Haskell as first language, she or he might have big problems using any
other language after that. Unlearning what you can do with Haskell is
2009/7/16 Daniel van den Eijkel d...@gmx.net:
In an ideal world, Haskell would be a perfect first programming language.
But consider: If someone without any programming background learns Haskell
as first language, she or he might have big problems using any other
language after that.
Haskell is a great language! Check out haskell.org. I'm ccing the Haskell
Cafe which is read by many people better qualified to answer your question than
me. (Since I've been working on Haskell for many years, I am not well
qualified to say how it seems to a beginner.)
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Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Haskell is a great language! Check out haskell.org. I'm ccing the Haskell
Cafe which is read by many people better qualified to answer your question than
me. (Since I've been working on Haskell for many years, I am not well
qualified to say how it seems to a
If only for the fact that our little Haskell community is composed of
about the nicest set of people ever -- I mean, try asking a newbie
question on #c sometime -- then Haskell is a great language to learn early.
Not only is it great because of it's community, but it's also full of
resources
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Haskell is a great language! Check out haskell.org. I'm ccing the Haskell
Cafe which is read by many people better qualified to answer your question than
me. (Since I've been working on Haskell for many years, I am not well
qualified to say how it seems to a
I disagree. It was easy enough for me. OK, I do have some Category
Theory background and it certainly helps a lot. Still, I think that for
a beginner (without any experience with C or anything like that) Haskell
would be relatively easy. It doesn't involve (at least at the start) an
ugly
Hello Michael,
Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 2:01:44 PM, you wrote:
Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but it is
pretty difficult for a beginner.
i believe that Haskell is hard for intermediate programmers already
knowing any imperative language, but for beginners it
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 03:01 -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
Charles,
Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but it is
pretty difficult for a beginner. In fact, it is pretty difficult for
anyone to learn in my experience, because it has so many advanced
concepts that
I agree -- I think the most major learning curve problem (for me) was
not learning haskell directly, it was un-learning all those patterns
and workarounds and so on from imperative/OOP languages.
Of course, the only problem with learning haskell first is that one
will probably be mildly
On 14 Jul 2009, at 13:48, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 03:01 -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
Charles,
Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but
it is
pretty difficult for a beginner. In fact, it is pretty difficult for
anyone to learn in my experience,
Michael Vanier wrote:
Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but it is
pretty difficult for a beginner. In fact, it is pretty difficult for
anyone to learn in my experience, because it has so many advanced
concepts that simply don't exist in other languages, and trying
At Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:01:44 -0700,
Michael Vanier wrote:
Haskell is a wonderful language (my favorite language by far) but it is
pretty difficult for a beginner. In fact, it is pretty difficult for
anyone to learn in my experience, because it has so many advanced
concepts that simply
Before teaching any data structure course, one MUST learn functional
languages with ADTs. It makes everything so easy to understand. So, it
MUST be a first language in every institution.
The biggest reason that one should learn functional languages with
algebraic data type(ADT)s first is
It maybe be that Haskell is harder to learn as your *second* language
because you have to unlearn things. Especially if your first language
was something like C or Python.
Python is not too bad. You can nearly use it a as a strict functional
programming language. While this is not the
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