Truly. I used Ada professionally for several years and wouldn't want to go back. Even though programs that compiled had a much higher probability of just work

Truly. I used Ada professionally for several years and wouldn't want to go back. Even though programs that compiled had a much higher probability of just working compared to other languages, programming with Ada was both dull (or maybe that's just an Aerospace industry thing) and frustrating (that type system, ugh). One thing I found while messing around with Haskell is that while learning and writing vanilla Haskell is one thing, deciphering Haskell written by others is quite another, given the propensity of library authors to use language extensions and stuff like TemplateHaskell.