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Howard Brazee  
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 More options Nov 22 2010, 10:57 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.functional, comp.lang.python, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.haskell
From: Howard Brazee <how...@brazee.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:57:41 -0700
Local: Mon, Nov 22 2010 10:57 am
Subject: Re: Scheme as a virtual machine?
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:38:53 +0100, Ertugrul Söylemez <e...@ertes.de>
wrote:

>Haskell is a simple language with a comparably small specification.
>It's not as simple as Common Lisp, but it's simple.  Note that simple
>doesn't mean easy.  Haskell is certainly more difficult to learn than
>other languages, which explains the low number of success stories.  On
>the other hand, I'm doing rapid web development in it.

I wonder how much that difficulty is innate, and how much is due to
learning other languages first.

I'm an old time CoBOL programmer, and know of quite a few people who
tried to learn OO-CoBOL without much luck.   The way to learn it was
to forget it - learn OO with some other language, then come back to it
later.    We had to divorce ourselves from the old paradigm first.    

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison


 
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