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Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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Haskell, Erlang, Pascal… Maria is a reference to Maria Montessori, whose educational philosophy inspired Maria.cloud.

> Haskell, Erlang, Pascal Those are family names, correct me if I’m wrong.

You're wrong. Haskell is named after Haskell Brooks Curry. There might be an opportunity for a new functional language named Brooks.

Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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> Haskell, Erlang, Pascal Those are family names, correct me if I’m wrong.

You're wrong. Haskell is named after Haskell Brooks Curry. There might be an opportunity for a new functional language named Brooks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(surname)

Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.

As a Jason, you get used to it.

Good one :)

Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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This is really fantastic! I've always felt like the lisp family could be a potentially killer educational language, with clojure being a good pick for its focus on functional ideas while being a bit more concise (and practical (looking at scheme)) than some other lisps. Typically, most programmers start out with an imperative language and then eventually learn a functional language. I've wondered what it would be lik…

Have you ever looked into Racket?

Agree, Racket was my first PL (well, it was Scheme back then) and in hindsight it was incredibly refreshing to not have to fight the computer to get my program to work. No syntax errors (no real syntax to speak of), no gotchas, no UB, no integer overflow... the list goes on. It gives you the opportunity to sit back and just think through your algorithms, which is what I think beginners would most benefit from.

Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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https://everything2.com/title/People+with+programming+langua... (Spoiler: It's mostly men.) AI Personal assistants on the other hand do seem to have feminine names or voices.

Those are last names.

haskell is a first name.

Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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You're wrong. Haskell is named after Haskell Brooks Curry. There might be an opportunity for a new functional language named Brooks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(surname)

https://www.houseofnames.com/maria-family-crest/Italian#:~:t....

Maria is also a surname, what's your point?

Re: Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

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Haskell, Erlang, Pascal… Maria is a reference to Maria Montessori, whose educational philosophy inspired Maria.cloud.

> Haskell, Erlang, Pascal Those are family names, correct me if I’m wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
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