Learning typed functional programming: obstacles & inroads
Yesterday, there was a discussion on a mailing list I'm on about a perception of gender diversity problems in the communities around functional programming, type theory, and programming language theory, even relative to other areas of computer science. After some speculation about education barriers and community approachability, I decided to conduct an informal survey on Twitter: if you think typed/functional programming is harder/more intimidating than other kinds, can you say why in a tweet? won't argue just curious — chrisamaphone (@chrisamaphone) December 17, 2013 You can read several of the (filtering for sarcasm/criticisms of languages) collected responses on Storify . I left "typed", "functional", and the combination thereof intentionally ambiguous because I was interested in how people interpreted those words as well as their reactions to whatever programming constructs they associated with them. Because I promised not to argue with anyone