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Subject:    Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice
From:       Nicola Gigante <nicola.gigante () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-08-29 9:49:39
Message-ID: 65456F0B-49FE-46A9-92A3-31FE8B4FB88F () gmail ! com
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> Il giorno 28/ago/2015, alle ore 22:17, Alberto G. Corona <agocorona@gmail.com> ha \
> scritto: 
> Exactly Mike,
> 
> The destruction of pedagogy and innovation by Rationalism:
> 
> http://nocorrecto.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-destruction-of-pedagogy-and.html \
> <http://nocorrecto.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-destruction-of-pedagogy-and.html>
Wright brothers and Watt were tinkerers, not scientists? Well, maybe they were not
_formally educated theoretical_ scientists. Science is every bit about trial-error \
experimentation as is about rational thinking. Science lives on the curiosity of a \
human being that wants to know what happens if he does something of which he cannot \
anticipate the effects. So 19th and 20th century pioneers were scientists, and good \
ones indeed.  That post misses it.

And talking about formalism, I'd like to ask the author of that post who he thinks \
has brought humanity from Wright's flying patch of metal pieces to the Apollo 11 \
mission, and from Watt's experiments to 15nm intel CPUs. Certainly not other \
tinkering, but  engineers that do hard physics backed by a strong mathematical \
background.  It is true that naked formalism is not pedagogical, but even when you \
start learning  at young age you have to learn that to do new things, _in this \
century_, you have to understand how things work.
Easy tinkering things have already all been discovered, we missed that train.

Anyway I'm sorry, this was a bit OT, so I promise to not talk further about it.

Bye :)
Nicola

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type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 28/ago/2015, alle ore 22:17, Alberto G. \
Corona &lt;<a href="mailto:agocorona@gmail.com" class="">agocorona@gmail.com</a>&gt; \
ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" \
class="">Exactly Mike,<br class=""><br class="">The destruction of pedagogy and \
innovation by Rationalism:<br class=""><br class=""><a \
href="http://nocorrecto.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-destruction-of-pedagogy-and.html" \
class="">http://nocorrecto.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/the-destruction-of-pedagogy-and.html</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br \
class=""><div class="">Wright brothers and Watt were tinkerers, not scientists? Well, \
maybe they were not</div><div class="">_formally educated theoretical_ scientists. \
Science is every bit about trial-error experimentation</div><div class="">as is about \
rational thinking. Science lives on the curiosity of a human being that wants \
to</div><div class="">know what happens if he does something of which he cannot \
anticipate the effects.</div><div class="">So 19th and 20th century pioneers were \
scientists, and good ones indeed.&nbsp;</div><div class="">That post misses \
it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And talking about formalism, \
I'd like to ask the author of that post who he thinks has</div><div class="">brought \
humanity from Wright's flying patch of metal pieces to the Apollo 11 \
mission,</div><div class="">and from Watt's experiments to 15nm intel CPUs. Certainly \
not other tinkering, but&nbsp;</div><div class="">engineers that do hard physics \
backed by a strong mathematical background.&nbsp;</div><div class="">It is true that \
naked formalism is not pedagogical, but even when you start learning&nbsp;</div><div \
class="">at young age you have to learn that to do new things, _in this century_, you \
have to</div><div class="">understand how things work.</div><div class="">Easy \
tinkering things have already all been discovered, we missed that train.</div><div \
class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway I'm sorry, this was a bit OT, so I \
promise to not talk further about it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div \
class="">Bye :)</div><div class="">Nicola</div></body></html>

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