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by rpglover64 4131 days ago
If you like math (I mean stuff like set theory and abstract algebra, not arithmetic and high-school math), then Haskell is wonderful. I find programming in it to be more enjoyable than in any other language. It will also make you think differently, which is a useful feature if you're learning a language to expand your horizons. It's also a gateway language to more bleeding edge aspects of language design.

That said, I find that knowing enough C to fix build and configuration problems in open source projects has been more useful than Haskell for me.