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

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 1/30/11 00:24 , Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 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?

Also worth pointing out is that kids get math flash cards early, at least
here in the US; while they're obviously trivial, they're still both
equational and algebraic.  So they're very probably already used to that
meaning, and systems of equations and ADTs are actually fairly easy jumps.

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