Yea, I took the course at neu and it was an amazing introduction to programming. I love oop now, but I'm pretty sure my code still has hints of this course in it. The simplicity and elegance of functional programming was awe inspiring when I took the course.
That is exactly how I feel about learning Haskell.
“Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.”