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Re:Ask HN: Is teaching my 8yr old son a functional language ... by davelnewton on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:13PM (#14213600)
If the person in question hasn't been exposed to anything else there's no unlearning. It's easier to teach a non-programmer FP than a programmer that's been exposed to imperative programming only (at least in my experience).

Not including Haskell here.

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Re:Ask HN: Is teaching my 8yr old son a functional language ... by tonyedgecombe on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:35PM (#14213726)
Functional programming certainly changes the way you think about many problems but I'm doubtful learning an imperative language first is detrimental.
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Re:Ask HN: Is teaching my 8yr old son a functional language ... by pythonaut_16 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @12:38PM (#14266286)
Imperative programming is just functional programming where some (many) of the inputs and outputs are hidden :)
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Re:Ask HN: Is teaching my 8yr old son a functional language ... by davelnewton on Thursday April 27, 2017 @04:31PM (#14214444)
It depends; I should amend it to say that if all that is focused on is imperative programming it can be a greater leap to FP than if the initial learning is either a comparative class or FP-first.
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