On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:00:27 +0100 (MET)
Johannes Waldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> This could be driven to the extreme: not only hide the
> word "monad",
> but also "functional". The title would be "Imperative
> programming in Haskell"
> (as S. Peyton Jones says in Tackling the Awkward Squad:
> "Haskell is the world's finest imperative programming
> language").
Couldn't this choice potentially backfire, though? For example, many people choose
Java over C because they prefer OO to straight imperative programming, which they see
at The Old Way.
If I went to a bookstore and saw one book entitled, "Imperative Programming in
Haskell," and another entitled, "OO Programming in Java," I wouldn't buy the Haskell
book, especially if had already had a bad experience with imperative programming in C.
How about, "The Post-OO Age: Haskell: Back to the Future in Imperative Programming"?
--Ben
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