> Learning a language is difficult when there is little to no mapping with previous languages When I was first exposed to Scheme and Haskell, I wondered how an

> Learning a language is difficult when there is little to no mapping with previous languages When I was first exposed to Scheme and Haskell, I wondered how anyone could be productive in such useless languages. Ironically, they ended up having a huge impact on my programming style and approach to software design. But I'll be the first to admit that learning Haskell was rather difficult. Or perhaps more accurately, learning the functional paradigm was rather difficult as someone who grew up using OO almost exclusively.