I agree with Dijkstra that Haskell should be taught in undergraduate courses. That's where we boil away most of the really bad, theory-ahead-of-practice CS idea

I agree with Dijkstra that Haskell should be taught in undergraduate courses. That's where we boil away most of the really bad, theory-ahead-of-practice CS ideas that academe cultivates. And I say this as a lover of both Haskell and universities. It's not until you've spent several 4am nights getting darcs and hackage to work that you realize no team can succeed without the sort of people who like reality and boring details as much as beautiful ideas. Haskell's culture is anathema to them. (And no, I'm not one of them. I just want my app to compile and my deps to be found.)