[Haskell-cafe] Interesting new user perspective

[Martin DeMello]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Cast
<jonathanccast at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 17:13 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:05:43 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
>>
>> >No reason not to expose newcomers to Haskell to the thing it does best.
>>
>> This is precisely why newcomers flounder.
>
> Newcomers flounder because they expect to keep programming the same way
> they always have.  They should be (and *are*) taught better ways of
> doing things.

http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/10/18/a-type-based-solution-to-the-strings-problem
is a brilliant example of a common workaday problem found in other
languages, and solved elegantly in Haskell

martin