@dibblego but HOOMANS!
"Teaching concepts to beginners is easier when types are concrete", said the beginner who has not even learned how to teach oneself.
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@BeRewt This is happening to#haskell right now and it is well-known crackpot bullshit. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Prelude710/List … - Show replies
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@alex_kurilin@BeRewt That is just one nodule of the steaming pile of bullshit.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@alex_kurilin@dibblego@BeRewt yeah the objection is that foldable & traversable are harder to understand than List-based Prelude -
@alex_kurilin@dibblego@BeRewt I don't have much sympathy for this notion as it implies a very facile mindset towards education.
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@alex_kurilin@dibblego@BeRewt BBP generalizes a *lot*Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@alex_kurilin@BeRewt Sure. We should generalise everything *precisely because it becomes easier to teach beginners*. I'll compromise thoughThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@alex_kurilin@dibblego@BeRewt keeping the Prelude stupid won't help anything. -
@alex_kurilin@dibblego@BeRewt educators & writers just need to HTFU
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@alex_kurilin@bitemyapp@BeRewt We *already know* that this "worry" is false. We have all tested it. All the teachers. We did it. -
@dibblego@alex_kurilin@BeRewt as I noted in another branch of the thread, foldable/traversable have not been difficult to teach. - Show replies
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