On discovering that I used to think in a functional manner before learning to program I wish I had begun with Haskell. Things which seemed like obvious things t

On discovering that I used to think in a functional manner before learning to program I wish I had begun with Haskell. Things which seemed like obvious things to try didn't work in C++ 98 so I 'learned' that my thinking was wrong and bad... I remember discovering the possibility for tail call elimination and being disappointed that it did not work. Lets keep the standardized tests with the standardized humans: absent.