Counterpoint: learning your first language and learning languages later in your career are very different processes and learning Haskell with a background in OO

Counterpoint: learning your first language and learning languages later in your career are very different processes and learning Haskell with a background in OOP languages may be harder then learning it as your first. > Arguments over programming languages often become emotional and skip past many of the practical business concerns that make programming languages valuable in the first place