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That's a response to a slightly different question. Your answer makes it clear that exposing students to a language isn't enough to make them take up a languag
by tome 4y ago
That's a response to a slightly different question. Your answer makes it clear that exposing students to a language isn't enough to make them take up a language. The original point was that Haskell isn't per se inaccessible.
- ulizzle 4y agoIt's inaccessible because it's difficult and arcane compared to languages like Python, especially at the beginner levels when you are still trying to figure out how a for-loop works, and what are variables, and so on.
- tome 4y agoOK, but now we're back full circle, and you're disagreeing with both epgui https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34542953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34542953 and krisoft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34544130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34544130
- ulizzle 4y agoYeah, of course, I am. I don't see what that has to do with anything. So my point is only valid if I support someone else? A lot of us here have read "Learn You A Haskell for a Great Good". We've used it. It's not a socio-historical incident, and it's not just beginners who struggle with the language either.
- tome 4y ago> Yeah, of course, I am. I don't see what that has to do with anything. So my point is only valid if I support someone else? Your point is perfectly valid. I'm just saying the thread has just become a sequence of assertions and not particularly enlightening.
- yellowapple 4y agoIf it was accessible, then exposing students to it would be enough to make them take it up, no?
- nephanth 4y agoNo? It may not be suited to their applications (wrong tooling / libraries ), or their collaborators may not use it, or they might simply not like it