[Haskell] on starting Haskell-Edu, a new education-related Haskell-related mailing list

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Isaac Dupree wrote:

> rather difficult, because beginner questions can easily spiral into curiosity
> about quite theoretical stuff, with no clear point of separation.  And I'm not
> sure we want to avoid having that kind of curiosity, but I suppose it might
> always intimidate some newbies: a predicament I'm not sure we can solve by a
> mere technical measure of splitting up lists.
> 

On a newbie list, it's easier to remember to give more of a beginner's 
guide to tough topics - or to point out when 'teachers' should take it to 
-cafe. 

> when I was a newbie I was intimidated by the sheer volume of Haskell-Cafe,
> never mind whether I could understand it or not :-) but also the relatively
> few amount of beginner questions with beginner answers when looking in the
> list archives, probably made me less sure whether my questions would belong
> there.
> 

That's another good reason for such a list. I suspect a good many "why are 
things like this?" questions would be better handled somewhere like that, 
too.

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