[Haskell-cafe] Haskell for children? Any experience?

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 1/27/11 10:28 , aditya siram wrote:
> Haskell's immutability is good for mathematics but doing anything else
> takes a great deal of up-front patience and perseverance, two very
> rare qualities in that demographic if my own childhood is any
> indication.

Isn't there already a body of evidence that people who've never been exposed
to procedural languages find functional programming to be much more natural?

(I vaguely recall trying to teach someone at a summer camp what = did in
BASIC; they were using the equational meaning, and "assignment" wasn't
clicking with them at all.)

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