D in the ix magazine about "programming today"

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> "Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message
> news:hhetss$26er$1 at digitalmars.com...
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>> Intro courses in the sciences are often intended to weed out the people

Ha, it appears they use this example to teach manipulation of arrays at 
least in the Oxford University:

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/comp150fp/archive/richard-bird/sudoku.pdf

"The Sudoku problem provides an ideal classroom example with which to 
illustrate manipulations of arrays as well as manipulation of programs. 
Indeed, the pearl is more or less a straightforward transcription of two 
lectures I gave to first-year undergraduates, omitting most of the 
calculations «snip»"

"«snip» and this is the pedagogic value of the exercise, we have gone for 
wholemeal programming, identifying these structures as complete entities 
in themselves. There are other Sudoku solvers out there, but the present 
one certainly seems one of the clearest and simplest."

So the typed, functional, scary babby eating Haskell solution is more or 
less the clearest and simplest for 1st year students.

I'm guessing that 20 … 50% of D users cannot comprehend the solution.