Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?

Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by TuringTest on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:40PM (#15484546)

It was introductory, yes, although it also covered relational programming in PROLOG.

I benefited from the type inference/type declarations, and learning about generics explained in a non-duck-typing way, though, which I wouldn't have had in LISP.

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Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by wwweston on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:16PM (#15484895)

Hey, can you point to or do you have any of the relational/Prolog programming materials? I dabbled in this years ago, mostly experimenting on my own, would love to see some materials designed for guided exploration.

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Re:Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional pro... by TuringTest on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:06AM (#15489351)

I'm afraid the material is some handwritten notes in Spanish, interleaved with some code examples in PROLOG. They were quite systematic IIRC, covering basic logic, data structures, proper use of the !bang for performance, etc.

I no longer have the exercises in code, just paper. I've yet to scan my handwritten notes and bring them to the digital era :-) This may prompt me to finally do it.

If you still want them, I can send you the scanned pdf to your mail. However, I think you'd better off with some free online course. On a cursory examination, this one seems similar to the content in my notes:

[1] http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online

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