> they were there for you when you were programmatically young and they introduced you gently into a world that's otherwise extremely complex. This may be true

> they were there for you when you were programmatically young and they introduced you gently into a world that's otherwise extremely complex. This may be true for you, but it is not true for everyone. You assume that learning Haskell as a first programming language would be more difficult, but you don't present any evidence to support that claim. People who have done so disagree with you.