Learning Haskell can teach students a lot of very important concepts that can shape their view of programming and problem solving for the better. It's not impos

Learning Haskell can teach students a lot of very important concepts that can shape their view of programming and problem solving for the better. It's not impossible to learn these things with other languages, and of course there are many things you might not learn using Haskell, but that's why you typically learn several programming languages in the course of a university education. In any case, it's not that hard to learn Java, and I would certainly look more closely at a resume that listed Haskell proficiency. Almost every resume I see lists Java. Also I second another poster's point that universities are not trade schools. I think it's a little sad if a department stopped teaching Haskell because of industry pressure, because the goal of a CS program is to teach CS, not to teach whatever programming language is on top of TIOBE.