[cubefox]

> I say this as someone who's first programming language was Haskell.

Amazing. How did that happen? Is it true that functional programming is only counterintuitive because almost everyone starts out with an imperative language?

[andersmurphy]

Philip Walder (one of the creators of Haskell) was our lecturer for my CS introductory course. I'd never done any programming before then.

Yes, imperative languages were initially counter intuitive to me. OO was even worse. SQL was fine as it's more declarative/functional.