-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/30/11 00:24 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > Isn't there already a body of evidence that people who've never been exposed > to procedural languages find functional programming to be much more natural?
Also worth pointing out is that kids get math flash cards early, at least here in the US; while they're obviously trivial, they're still both equational and algebraic. So they're very probably already used to that meaning, and systems of equations and ADTs are actually fairly easy jumps. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1E92EACgkQIn7hlCsL25WsWwCcDyoxsulKYstH2bXdeUBu/RB0 3A4AoL59wMMxMsSt032bXQ0ceQ+TDJUB =amOK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
