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Re:Ask HN: What programming language will you learn in 2014? by ciderpunx on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:59PM (#6955539)
If you're learning Haskell, be prepared to feel like a beginner for a while.

I had great learning it. I usually pick up languages fairly quickly, but Haskell eluded me for more months than I'd care to admit. There is a great community of very smart and friendly people who helped me on IRC, and a couple of pretty good books -- http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html.

I enjoyed the experience, and I certainly feel like a better programmer for it. But damn I felt daft for a few months!

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Re:Ask HN: What programming language will you learn in 2014? by peterfoldi on Monday December 23, 2013 @01:53PM (#6955870)
I am looking forward to that experience :) Besides the technical reasons (nice syntax, pure fp, strong typing, ...) I chose Haskell to learn functional programming because it has a very good community and documentation. It's like the entire Haskell ecosystem's been built to teach FP. Actually that was kind of the intention when Haskell was born as far as I know.
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