foldable flexible bridges (putting foldable+traversable in prelude) Re: Burning bridges

[Conrad Parker]

On 21 May 2013 18:22, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, 21 May 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:
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>> 2) does the change make learning the language more challenging? No. In
>> fact, i've encountered *many* more
>> smart people getting confused as to why the map / fold etc in prelude are
>> all list specific than i've seen
>> people struggle with type classes.
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> The Haskell beginners I know, even have problems with 'map' and even more
> 'fold' being higher order functions.

Perhaps such novice programmers should be taught using a Haskell
subset or different language, such as Helium or Elm.

Conrad.