Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?

Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by BoiledCabbage on Monday October 16, 2017 @11:43AM (#15483990)

This is so true. Anyone who wants to see the ideas behind Haskell and It's style of languages succeed should be doing everything they can to support elm. You can't find and easier, more straightforward introduction to the concepts and style of programming than it.

Yes purists will complain about the bells and whistles it does have, and that's exactly the point.

You can learn elm and be productive in it in after a single weekend. And it's error messages should be the industry standard for language messages in any language. It's incredible how simple and accurate they are. It will change your view of what a compiler is capable of.

Not to mention it's not a far leap for people already doing web coding.

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Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by anthonybullard on Monday October 16, 2017 @08:26PM (#15487762)

I would just like to mention that as of 1.5, Elixir has stepped it's game up on error messaging as well, to get as close it can get to Elm's(which truly are fantastic) without static typing.

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Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by wtetzner on Monday October 16, 2017 @04:34PM (#15486446)

The only thing I wish it had was something like ML's module system, with functors. Mainly, I think it would be a good thing for Elm to have because it fits so well with the Elm architecture.

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