[laylomo2]

The thing that really made Haskell click for me was learning OCaml. I was getting confused about little things such as whether a particular token was a type or a value, particularly with some of the more advanced extensions enabled. Learning OCaml gave me a secondary perspective on the ML family, and now I can comfortably navigate Haskell code more or less.

[domnomnom]

I find this ironic, because I found ocaml extremely confusing.

[haroldl]

I think starting with Standard ML is a good idea. It is the core of ocaml and really highlights the differences with other approaches to programming. I went from SML to ocaml to Haskell.

[domnomnom]

Well that makes a lot of sense. It’s confusing at first because of how similar the languages are.