Particularly worth noting is how well a novice Haskeller performed. In particular, the novice's program took the second-least amount of time and was the second

Particularly worth noting is how well a novice Haskeller performed. In particular, the novice's program took the second-least amount of time and was the second shortest. Here's a description: > The Haskell Report was given to a newly hired college graduate, who was then given 8 days to learn Haskell. This new hire received no formal training, but was allowed to ask an experienced Haskell programmer questions as issues came up during the self study. After this training period, the new hire was handed the geo-server specification and asked to write a prototype in Haskell. A college student who had just started learning Haskell eight days ago managed to put out a very credible prototype! Clearly, Haskell is by no means impossible to learn.