The footnote about Sapir-Whorf slightly misses the point, I think: I found learning Haskell useful because it made it impossible to write programs the way I was

The footnote about Sapir-Whorf slightly misses the point, I think: I found learning Haskell useful because it made it impossible to write programs the way I was used to on Python. So, I _had_ to learn to think in the paradigm it uses. I’ve mostly written Java and JS/TS for pay, but I now have experience with a whole new way of designing programs that is relatively useful.