[protomikron]

Actually Haskell is excellent for an introduction. The problem with Haskell is that it may be hard hard to get "real stuff done" so to say, i.e. in an industry setting where you have to interact with many external services or libraries (and then miss those specific libraries).

If you're learning the basics of Computer Science you usually don't have to do this so Haskell is a great language then.