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You can learn also Delphi. Is covers all the ranges from very high-level till machine language. Also, it has a much cleaner syntax vs C, you can also have a real job with it (unlike Haskell), and is has a huge community from where to learn from.

Drawbacks are: not so popular compared with C (but waaaay more popular compared with Haskell), not so functional compared with Haskell. Far better compared with both ones WRT web development (there's a very powerful library shipped OOTB for this) - especially when it comes to manage complex session states. OTOH, isn't really a web tool, it's rather a high-performance RAD environment with main focus on native (compiled) code and DB development. Other drawbacks are: - you must know that you should ask the community where to find good libraries and examples - the free edition (Turbo) is outdated. But there are trials.