Re: Engineering Value of Functional Programming
Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 2:42 AM Matti Nykänen < [email protected]> wrote: > > - ...but perhaps a nightmare for the newcomer? At least the book > Felienne Hermans: *The Programmer's Brain*. (Manning,2021) > seems to imply (but does not directly claim) so, because it says that > we humans rely on "anchors" or words whose meaning stays the same while we > are learning new concepts. > > The good news there is that the anchors don't have to be keywords. Pick a program in a field you know and use the stuff you know as anchors. (I learned practical Haskell from the xmonad source code, using the XLib calls as anchors.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh [email protected] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.