Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: Haskell as a first language?

It maybe be that Haskell is harder to learn as your *second* language because you have to unlearn things. Especially if your first language was something like C or Python.

Python is not too bad. You can nearly use it a as a strict functional programming language. While this is not the idiomatic style to use python in, it sure eases transition to a real functional language (compared to say, C). Also Python has no pointers, but does have garbage collection.