Re: [Haskell-cafe] How did you stumble on Haskell?

What's folks most interesting ways to arrive at FP?

Mine isn't most interesting. I did some interesting (I think so) research in visualisation and coded it in C. Then I tried to extend it - speed it up, add more features, etc, - and found C unsatisfactory. It is error prone and C programs cannot be modified easily. Then I tried some macro languages, M4 and like, again without satisfaction - the same modification failures. No one can keep things tied up for me. Then I search and roam, I left my visualisation research behind programming languages field and found Haskell. It got me by syntax then by type system. I still hope I'll return to visualisation research.