Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 18:29 UTC, submitted by Lambda
"Haskell is a valuable language for a lot of different reasons, but the most important one is that it changes the way that you think about programming. Haskell does things in a very different way from the imperative languages that most of us are familiar with. And it's an extremely well-designed language, so there isn't a ton of crap standing between you and the concepts that you can learn from it."
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2006-07-04
C# 3.0 is getting a whole boat load of Functional Programming support via LINQ. There's a nice tutorial on Functional Programming in C# 3.0 here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/pages/FP-Tutorial.aspx
It might be more accessible to those wanting to learn FP than is Haskell (the often heard knock against Haskell is, "It's a beautiful language but requires a PHD to understand it" (granted, that's hyperbole)).