https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37399492urn:hackerpapers:mention:1412.4880:37399492Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:54:10 GMT<p>I don&#x27;t think the MIT guys have the same motivations as the author of this book. He (Walck) discusses the suitability of (a subset of) Haskell in this article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880 Maybe someone else can shed light on the MIT mindset. Certainly some of Walck&#x27;s points apply to Scheme as much as to Haskell, but Scheme lacks the type system, syntax and syntactical &quot;convenience&quot; of curried functions. The basic strength of functional programming is the lack of complex imperative book-keeping: your code looks more like math. My impression is that SICP and SICM are eccentric.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33954895urn:hackerpapers:mention:1412.4880:33954895Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:24:50 GMT<p>Related: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16453192urn:hackerpapers:submission:1412.4880:16453192Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:36:18 GMT<p>Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell</p><p></p><p>468 points; 80 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13137890urn:hackerpapers:mention:1412.4880:13137890Fri, 09 Dec 2016 10:29:19 GMT<p>- paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880 - source: https://twitter.com/prezcannady/status/807065697608224768</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12694987urn:hackerpapers:submission:1412.4880:12694987Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:43:34 GMT<p>Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell</p><p></p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9006622urn:hackerpapers:mention:1412.4880:9006622Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:38:26 GMT<p>Continuing my mission to promote links to abstracts over links to PDFs: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880 .</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005654urn:hackerpapers:mention:1412.4880:9005654Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:09:31 GMT<p>Please don&#x27;t link straight to PDFs on the arXiv. Link instead to the abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9004774urn:hackerpapers:submission:1412.4880:9004774Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:10:29 GMT<p>Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell</p><p></p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003898urn:hackerpapers:submission:1412.4880:9003898Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:04:32 GMT<p>Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]</p><p></p><p>240 points; 55 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1412.4880/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CY