[kjellsbells]

Feels like a gentle claim that "Haskell is best", in that the author thinks that Haskell people have an edge even when coding in other languages, because (somehow) they'll have seen it in Haskell already. I'm not sure I buy that claim, but OK.

I am convinced that no perfect lingua franca exists, and that even the best, richest, languages you can think of, with giant ecosystems and millions of users, have massive holes that guarantee another language has a meaty role. C is the closest, and whole industries have been borne trying to solve its problems.

If I was in charge of Educating The Young, I would ask that they learn C, something culturally descendant from C, and something wildly different from it.

(It occurs to me that one could make exactly the same comment about human languages too, which is why contract lawyers exist, I suppose. And my advice there would be to maybe learn English, German/French, and then something unrelated, like Mandarin Chinese. Or Finnish. I do feel strongly that learning a second language gives you new ways of thinking that are not easily available in your mother tongue.)