[michaelsbradley]

I feel the same. I was there in the room when he gave the talk: it was the first software-devs conference I'd attended and I was so green that I struggled to understand if he was making references to Haskell or another lang I'd been introduced to in the conference's previous days by various presenters.

Some days later I started learning Emacs, Clojure, et al. and I was/am definitely the better for it.