On 4/27/07, Taillefer, Troy (EXP) <troy.taillefer@lmco.com> wrote: [snip]

By the way Mike thanks you just totally cheered me up I guess I just needed to sit back and think about what I have learned and how valuable it is to me.

There had to be some reason you were still hanging around on this list. ;-) I think that one can make a really good case for learning Haskell on the basis that knowing how to program in Haskell will make you a better programmer in any language. There's some recognition about that regarding functional programming in business; I know Jane St. Capital only hires programmers with FP experience and uses Ocaml on the inside because they know that programmers who can program in these languages produce good code. I'm glad to hear that your experience with Haskell has made you a better Java programmer and it cheers me up to think that there's something inherently beneficial to learning the language per se, even if there aren't a lot of libraries to make it as productive as other languages _yet_. Cheers, Mike