> It is difficult to motivate people (outside academia) to learn it and use it for something productive. The main reason I suggest people learn Haskell: "A la

> It is difficult to motivate people (outside academia) to learn it and use it for something productive. The main reason I suggest people learn Haskell: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." – Alan Perlis Just kidding, I have bills to pay, too. But my standard for whether it's worth learning another langage is quite a bit higher now. I definitely felt that learning Haskell improved my non-Haskell programming by making me more conscious (and cautious) of the impacts of using state. And more aware in retrospect when that has been the cause of wasted days debugging.