Comments by "Liquid Mobius" (@liquidmobius) on "Exploring Verse, Haskell, Language Design and Teaching (with Simon Peyton Jones)" video.

  1. Very interesting! And perfect timing! I've recently begun exploring functional programming with OCaml, and I really love the functional paradigm and the thought process of functional programmers. For me it's very concrete and easy to grasp. Being on the low end of an intermediate programmer, I think this is also why a lot of people start to learn programming but never stick with it. They probably saw a Python tutorial and so started to learn Python OOP, when their thought process and comfort could be more aligned with the functional paradigm. That's why I always encourage new programmers to take a survey of languages course to find what language and paradigm best suits them.
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  2.  @delibellus  It certainly depends on what you're trying to do. C is the very first language I started with and learned, although I'm definitely no expert. I would say people who start with C or a similar lower-level language understand programming much better than people who start with very abstracted, garbage-collected languages.
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