How do people stumble on Haskell? I've taught ML at UPenn, and many of my colleagues in Amazon are in SeaFunc -- switching from C funk to func funk. I've got Hudak's book a while ago, but didn't have time/excuse to delve into it until recently. Then the most fantastic chain if events triggered it: -- finally switched to Intel Mac -- got Parallels -- got a recent Linux, openSUSE 10.2, to stick into Parallels -- decided finally to try Gentoo -- found equery slow, came across Adelie/FQuery as "fast equery" -- emerge adelie To my surprise, saw it emerge GHC! Realized Adelie is a Haskell way to hack Portage. Dug all things Haskell! I also used Darcs for a long time. It probably takes several pro et contra factors to push away from boring things and to be inducted into interesting FP things. Again, UPenn focus on ML was invaluable, and Ullman's book on ML superb -- and thin! What's folks most interesting ways to arrive at FP? Cheers, Alexy