It Seemed Like A Good Idea, At The Time

I was going through one of those “every language sucks” periods a few days back, so I decided to do something productive and learn me a Haskell. So far, I’m liking it: the pure functional style isn’t as hard as I expected, monads are okay after a bit (though I’m still a little suspicious of them), the strict typing isn’t too much of a burden, the polymorphic types are bliss to use, and the pattern matching is simply wonderful.  It also comes with an extensive set of libraries and a central repository, which is nice to find in a non-mainstream language. Overall, I think Haskell is a good language to know.