On 1/28/07, Alexy Khrabrov
How do people stumble on Haskell?
I was thinking that my story wasn't particularly interesting, but then again, I may be the only person on this list who can actually give a properly-cited publication as an answer to the question "how did you learn Haskell?": Patricia Johann and Franklyn Turbak, Lumberjack Summer Camp: A Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Research Experience in Computer Science, Computer Science Education 11(4), Dec. 2001. - http://cs.wellesley.edu/~fturbak/pubs/cse01.pdf The shorter answer is, "I got paid to learn it," when I was an undergrad, and so I find those of you with real jobs and real lives who learn new languages in their copious free time with no particular extrinsic motivation for it to be particularly admirable. Cheers, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* chevalier@alum.wellesley.edu *Often in error, never in doubt "Relax. I'm weird, not violent."--Brad Boesen, _Disturbed_