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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by leshow on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:15PM (#14582995)
Uh, what? Learning Haskell covers a huge surface area, many things you learn are applicable to tons of other languages. How does that make it a poor teaching language?
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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by mhh__ on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:48PM (#14583140)
I'm interpreting "Teaching language" to be the first language students learn. How can one explain the need for monadic IO properly without explaining how regular printf and the like work. Also, Haskell is quite scary to the beginner (Although I personally find it much simpler/more consistent than the Java and C++)

If it's (say) the third language they learn, then Haskell is absolutely perfect for the exact reason/s you have stated. Personally, I actually learnt Haskell by accident (Read SPJ's book about lazy functional language implementation, realized SPJ started Haskell then learnt more from there).

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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by wtetzner on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:38PM (#14584488)
> Also, Haskell is quite scary to the beginner (Although I personally find it much simpler/more consistent than the Java and C++)

Is it? Or is it just harder for people who have already learned a mainstream programming language?

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