On 1/28/07, Alexy Khrabrov
How do people stumble on Haskell?
My story isn't as interesting as some of these. My first quarter in school, I took a course taught in Scheme. I expressed some dissatisfaction with the lack of types (and, in particular, the collection of bugs that would have been easily caught with one), and the grad TA pointed me to ML. Some time later, I was talking to another prof. in the hall about ML, and an older guy walking by suggested that I was wasting my time and should go learn Haskell. At the time, the most obvious tutorial was the Gentle Introduction, which left me confused for about a year or so, but eventually (and I have no memory the trigger), I started writing code in Haskell and was completely hooked. (Incidentally, I eventually found out who the older guy was - Doug McIlroy - and he ended up advising my honors work. All in all, a very convenient meeting.) /g