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To take your analogy further, the LISP masters are like ultra-fit personal trainers. When they run a bootcamp for out-of-shape people, they start off with impr
by akamaka 4y ago
To take your analogy further, the LISP masters are like ultra-fit personal trainers. When they run a bootcamp for out-of-shape people, they start off with impractically intense exercises and just make everyone demotivated.
- grendelt 4y ago"Oooooooh! Welcome to Rex Kwan Do! Let me show you how superior I am to you know-nothing chumps! Bow to your sensei! Bow to your sensei!" I had some pretty bad language instruction in college, but the professor teaching Haskell was the worst. Maybe it really was a case of "if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", but I remember everyone finishing that class (just barely) and nobody ever wanting to do use it again.
- Cu3PO42 4y agoTo present anecdotal counter evidence: my FP class using Haskell was phenomenal. I've talked to other students who've also taken the class and they generally agree.