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I started learning haskell about 6 months ago and I'm quite enjoying it as it requires a different mental model compared to any C-like language (Java, C#, etc).

Learning Haskell has helped me to cut a good amount of BS from technologies (and engineers too). Haskell needs Monads, Transformers and more things that I don't understand yet because sometimes operations need to be sequenced. And on top of it because it's not possible to perform any non-deterministic (IO) action without telling the world about it, as any non-deterministic behaviour is wrapped in IO.

I also find it interesting that Haskell feels lot more polymorphic that every statically typed OO language I know, when polymorphism is one of the pillars of OO.




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