[Haskell-cafe] Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt

[John Goerzen]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:50:11PM -0800, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:56 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > > Most people don't understand pure functional programming either.  Does
> > > that mean we should introduce unrestricted side effects in Haskell?
> > 
> > The key is to introduce concepts to them in terms they can understand.
> > 
> > You introduce it one way to experienced abstract mathematicians, and a
> > completely different way to experienced Perl hackers.  I wouldn't expect
> > a mathematician to grok Perl, and I wouldn't expect $PERL_HACKER to grok
> > abstract math.  People have different backgrounds to draw upon, and we
> > are under-serving one community.
> 
> False.  We are failing to meet the un-realistic expectations of advanced
> Perl/Python/Ruby/C/C++/Java/any other imperative language programmers as
> to the ease with which they should be able to learn Haskell.

What part of that are you saying is false?  That people have different
backgrouns and learn differently?

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> jcc
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