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A comment on Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001).

Re:Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) by parenthesis on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @10:22AM (#7023980)
At the University of Edinburgh, they teach first year undergraduates Haskell and Java (Haskell in semester one and Java in semester two).
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Re:Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) by mschlafli1 on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @12:50PM (#7025076)
But I bet that's only because Phil Wadler is there advocating functional programming and Haskell to bits.
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Re:Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001) by warmfuzzykitten on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @06:58PM (#7027785)
How successful are they with this approach in terms of student learning? What are the success, drop-out rates, etc?
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