[Haskell-cafe] Re: Specify array or list size?

[David Roundy]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:40:55PM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> In your opinion, do you think Haskell is appropriate for someone with 
> zero math background? I can't imagine how I'd explain something like 
> currying to someone who doesn't know math.

I'd think it'd be pretty easy for a non-mathy non-programmer person to
learn (based on pure speculation--I've never taught haskell).  There is a
sort of "basic core" of haskell that is pretty easy, and most of the higher
level concepts are a sort of nicer way to say the same thing.  For example,
while lambda expressions are very nice, it's always possible to do the same
thing by declaring a named function in a let or where clause.
-- 
David Roundy
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