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Actually, for what it's worth, it's the widely accepted status of FP as a kind of elite ghetto that I was alluding to, rather than its practicality. I'm not the
by theoh 12y ago
Actually, for what it's worth, it's the widely accepted status of FP as a kind of elite ghetto that I was alluding to, rather than its practicality. I'm not the first to comment on that, and not the best placed to know how to fix it, but, you know, I was musing on what it might be like to have an ML family event involving kids learning functional programming. Something a bit "soft" rather than relentless logic and category theory.
- samth 12y agoActually, there was no category theory at the ML workshop. And the particular complaints you made were based on misunderstanding Andreas' joke, and on being annoyed that FP people are playful while being an "elite ghetto". The particular example of someone who makes a joke, Simon Peyton-Jones, has spent the last several years pushing computing into every elementary school in the UK.