New type of ($) operator in GHC 8.0 is problematic

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Two notable differences between Racket and the situation in Haskell is that (1) Racket has a full blown IDE to support the staged languages and (2) AFIK any Racket program in a simpler language is still a valid Racket program in a more advanced language. (The latter wouldn’t be the case with, e.g., a Prelude omitting type classes as you need to introduce new names —to avoid overloading— that are no longer valid in the full Prelude.)

Manuel

> Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io>:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, at 08:09, Christopher Allen wrote:
>> I have tried a beginner's Prelude with people. I don't have a lot of data
>> because it was clearly a failure early on so I bailed them out into the
>> usual thing. It's just not worth it and it deprives them of the
>> preparedness to go write real Haskell code. That's not something I'm
>> willing to give up just so I can teach _less_.
> 
> Chris, have you written about your experiences teaching with a
> beginner's Prelude? I'd be quite interested to read about it, as (1) it
> seems like a natural thing to do and (2) the Racket folks seem to have
> had good success with their staged teaching languages.
> 
> In particular, I'm curious if your experience is in the context of
> teaching people with no experience programming at all, vs programming
> experience but no Haskell (or generally FP) experience. The Racket "How
> to Design Programs" curriculum seems very much geared towards absolute
> beginners, and that could be a relevant distinction.
> 
> Thanks!
> Eric
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