Linked by Charles Williams on Mon 7th Apr 2003 03:17 UTC
We have all heard the horror stories of how GNU/Linux is difficult, if not almost impossible, as far as general desktop usability is concerned. In particular, there seems to be a continuous stream of gripes printed across the Internet, from Microsoft Windows users who wish, or have tried, to migrate to GNU/Linux, yet gave up in frustration. But what happens when complete computer newbies are introduced to GNU/Linux? By computer newbies, I am referring to those who have no computer experience whatsoever, in either a Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix or other environment.
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I'm sure the majority of you haven't heard of functional programming (ml, erlang, haskell etc) or even used one, and the same applies. For users used to imperitive programming (C, Java, Cobol and other crud) it is almost impossible to learn a functional programming language because its "hard" and imperitive is "easy". If the students are thaugt from day one in a FP, the opinions are reversed.
Seems similar stuff applies here...