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Advice to start learning programming from Haskell or Lisp or C++ is arrogance.
by EugeneOZ 11y ago
Advice to start learning programming from Haskell or Lisp or C++ is arrogance.
- warkid 11y agoPefectly fine I one takes full responsibility for own advice.
- codygman 11y agoHow so? I'd appreciate you expanding on it, as well as responding to the existence of these: Teaching Haskell to a 10 year old[0] Realm of Racket[1] Land of lisp[2] 0: https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haskell-to-a-10-year-old-day-1/ https://superginbaby.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/teaching-haske... 1: http://realmofracket.com/ http://realmofracket.com/ 2: http://landoflisp.com/ http://landoflisp.com/
- thomasahle 11y agoI know Haskell is the introductory programming language of choice at many British universities like Oxford and Cambridge. In the US C, C++ and Scheme (functional) are all in the top 6 most common ( http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the... ) so I don't see at all why those shouldn't be good choices.