>>17Except that it isn't. I've never did no fancy book learning. Yet, I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of haskell. It was my exclusive language of choice for many years. Its type system and idea of purely functional programming embedded itself in my memory forever, but I won't spend a significant time with haskell anymore.
The overall ecosystem is shit and filled with compromise. Only writing web apps slightly improved since I started. (
https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md) But hey, pure functions.
Nowadays, it's a gamut of lisp, c, c++, rust, javascript, python, ruby, perl, php, java, go, c#, asm (arm, mips, x86), haskell, ocaml, scala, idris, clojure, scheme, and erlang. Yeah, I'm serious. I said fuck it and jumped on all the band wagons. Life is more interesting that way.
With the exception of lisp-like macros, I stopped caring about language features. They're all shit in their own way. With that came a sense of freedom because I can just drop into any ecosystem and use readily available tools. I like being lazy, and I have haskell to thank for that pursuit.
THANK YOU, HASKELL.