[Haskell-cafe] [Newbie] Why or why not haskell ?

First, i'd like to say good day to everybody. I didn't find enough information to anwser this question: Being interesting in learning another way of programming besides C and perl i started watching other languages. These are my candidates: - ada; - erlang; - clisp or scheme; and of course - haskell. Haskell seems very interesting indeed (monadic, STM, a good library). Maybe some of you know some or all of these languages and can explain me some pros/cons about them especially for network programming. Thanks for your attention. Have a nice day. C. Plasschaert