[valarauca1]

>radically different

But swift isn't radically different paradigm shift like switching to a purely functional language like Haskell from a life spent writting c++.

I think your confusing learning functional programming with learning a "functional programming language." The "functional" part takes longer then the "programming lanague" part.

[sanityinc]

I didn't say anything about Swift: rather, I was responding to the parent's overly general assertion.