| It's wonderful to see so many comments on Haskell! I began learning Haskell about a year ago. Coming from the world of C/Java/Ruby/Python, venturing into Haskell has been a phenomenal experience. While frustrating in the beginning, the payoff has been worth it. For me personally, I still wake up excited by the language & what’s left to discovery. Aside from its technical merits, there's a certain expressive beauty and power to it. For example, I recently wanted to write a command-line version of 2048 in Haskell. Instead of being bogged down in the minutia of keeping track of array indexes and state variables, it was simply a matter of transposing lists (corresponding to board rotations). The entire game fit onto a single screen of code that reads like English (once you’re accustomed to the syntax - please don’t be scared off by that!) I spent some time learning Clojure. From my limited experience, it’s certainly easier to get up to speed writing working programs with Clojure. The simplicity of LISP syntax is hard to beat. And the fact that it runs atop the JVM makes things like cross-platform GUI programming a breeze compared to Haskell. But while macros are powerful, it really doesn’t compare to the flexibility & composability of Haskell. Haskell provides some powerful abstractions which make building software easier, and these capabilities simply aren’t possible in other languages — check out the Tony Morris videos on monads & monad transformers for more details [1]. He also explores why these abstractions, if they’re indeed so powerful, aren’t currently more prevalent in software engineering. He’s dedicated to changing that. LYAH is a great resource, but it can be a bit verbose at times.For those interested in diving into the language right away, I recommend checking out the University of Virginia CS 1501 Haskell lectures [2]. They start with the basics and gradually build up to more advanced concepts like functors, monoids, monads, etc. They even have a section on category theory at the end. For a great intro to web development with Haskell, see Ryan Trinkle’s talk on creating a link shorter (using the Snap web framework with a PostgreSQL backend). [3] Live demo [4] For a more formal CS-style introduction to Haskell, see the lectures by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Giesl. [5] [1](http://vimeo.com/robmanthey/videos/page:6/sort:alphabetical/) [2](http://shuklan.com/haskell/index.html#) [3](http://vimeo.com/59109358) [4](http://memoi.se/) [5](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ZJ-o00b2t79v6er1O-eBQ/vid...) |