still comparatively young, they realize when 15 or 16, the importance of reading. However, being forced to go through the initial stages where scarcely any other reading matter is available but that written for much younger children, they detest reading though attracted at the same time to a skill which seems so necessary to all other people. This regret and disappointment may assist considerab...

The barbarians are at the gates. Hordes of Java programmers are being exposed to generics and delegates; hundreds of packages have been uploaded to Hackage; the Haskell IRC channel has nearly hit 500 users; and it's only a matter of time before Microsoft seals that multi-billion dollar bid for Hayoo. The time has come to retreat and climb higher into our ivory tower: we need to design a languag...