On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Cast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 17:13 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:05:43 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote: >> >> >No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to the thing it does best. >> >> This is precisely why newcomers flounder. > > Newcomers flounder because they expect to keep programming the same way > they always have. They should be (and *are*) taught better ways of > doing things.
http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/10/18/a-type-based-solution-to-the-strings-problem is a brilliant example of a common workaday problem found in other languages, and solved elegantly in Haskell martin _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
