[gawi]

Agreed that Haskell might not be to perfect fit for most of the enterprise projects out there, BUT nevertheless it is worth learning and mastering. The perceived difficulty comes from decades of teaching of imperative programming. I'm myself the product of C/C++/Java and it's amazing how I've manage to deal with so many peculiarities of theses languages. After having learned Haskell, I realize that it's much more coherent than the vast majority of other programming languages (including the functional languages). I'm learning Scala today and frankly, Haskell is much simpler. It is just amazing what you can achieve with good abstractions (parallelism, performance, modularity).

You might be tempted to use it yet but I'd suggest you keep on eye on this language. The potential is great and Haskell is evolving quite fast.

[SkyMarshal]

Yes, I actually started learning Haskell recently b/c I thought it would help me better grok Scala, which seems to borrow mostly from the ML family.

Scala is definitely a better Java imho, and you get to keep the JVM and all its libraries, and the Lift web framework is superb, and you can even build Android apps with Scala.

But ironically I've found myself falling in love with Haskell and not wanting to use anything else. For the first time ever I know what a real type system is and what it's for, and Haskell basically pulls a Steve Jobs in completely rethinking how to do parallelism (strictly control global state and side effects by eliminating them by default, enabled only via monad).

Mind expanding indeed.