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You shouldnt be downvoted.

I find the language very highschooler-unfriendly too, so teaching the youth will be difficult.

I love FP ... but the terminology excludes smaller children, and non-mathy people who can still program. Its a shame.

The best case scenario is when these concepts simply become compiler specific or core libraries.


There's nothing wrong with haskell itself. Some really cool stuff has been written in it (Pandoc comes to mind).

I am objecting to obscurantist presentation. It doesn't have to be THAT opaque for such a simple modulo arithmetic problem.

I object to the implementation given in the article. It's ugly and brittle because of how specific it is.


I agree with you, i love haskell’s syntax and function first m style, guards, do’s, types first ..

Id call a maybe monad a “safe container type” rather than a monad, where applicatives id call “mappables” ... maybe should write a book about it someday. I understand how criticism is tiring as-well, math people mean well and i honestly don't mean ti take away their toy.


I use Haskell for everything, and even I wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to programming. I would recommend Scheme instead.




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