[the-owlery]

> > * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and

> I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang.

> The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion.

I use Clojure, generally like functional programming, and am fine using recursion.

> Haskell has such a clean looking syntax.

I have gotten fond of Clojure's Lisp-like syntax.

> Oh, I think you're trying to say the threshold of being good with haskell is much higher? Cause I see that argument quite and bit.

Not sure -- haven't spent any time with Haskell. Never tried Erlang either. Do you think it generally takes longer to become productive with Haskell than with other functional programming languages?