[Haskell-cafe] Engineering Value of Functional Programming

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 2:42 AM Matti Nykänen <
matti.johannes.nykanen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>    - ...but perhaps a nightmare for the newcomer? At least the book
>    Felienne Hermans: *The Programmer's Brain*. (Manning,2021)
>    seems to imply (but does not directly claim) so, because it says that
>    we humans rely on "anchors" or words whose meaning stays the same while we
>    are learning new concepts.
>
> The good news there is that the anchors don't have to be keywords. Pick a
program in a field you know and use the stuff you know as anchors. (I
learned practical Haskell from the xmonad source code, using the XLib calls
as anchors.)

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brandon s allbery kf8nh
allbery.b at gmail.com
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