In retrospect, was burning bridges a mistake?

[Bodigrim]

@dixonary

From the perspective of someone who teaches about 200 beginners every year, FTP has caused absolutely zero issues or consternation for students, and I would encourage people to step away from “won’t someone think of the beginners?” as a necessary failing of FTP.

If one point of evidence is not enough, here is Graham Hutton:

GH : Yah, so I mean, I was one of the, I mean the Foldable-Traversable thing is something which I was not very keen on when it was being proposed and voted on. But actually, I mean, since, I was worried it would it would have a negative impact on how I teach Haskell, for example, but actually it didn’t. … But, yeah, I did worry about the Foldable-Traversable stuff, but in practice it’s had essentially zero impact on how I teach Haskell, which is good, because I did worry about that one.