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I don't know that arguing for beginner students to learn what is basically the early version of Haskell as their intro to computing is a compelling alternative.

The basics of computing are hard enough to learn when you aren't focused on type theory, lazy vs eager evaluation, etc at the same time.



> I don't know that arguing for beginner students to learn what is basically the early version of Haskell as their intro to computing is a compelling alternative.

See when that text was published. The author would probably argue for a slightly more modern language these days.




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