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The learning curve of Haskell can indeed be daunting.

It took me about 4-5 months to get comfortable with Haskell, and a couple of years to make it the language I'm most comfortable in.

I can see your point and I know that lots of people are doing great things with Haskell, but I simply made the assessment that for me, right now, I don't want to put in hundreds more hours of effort into learning Haskell, just to see if maybe I can finally get to the point of achieving enlightenment and maybe even build something useful one day.

That's why I'm so excited about discovering Racket; at first, I simply thought of it as a stop-gap on the road back to Haskell. But as I've learned more about it, I see that Racket has got so much to offer in its own right that I don't necessarily need to go back at all; I'm achieving enlightenment already!

I do find that months of investment into a crucial tool such as a programming language is worth it for anyone who careers in programming.

I agree; I'm going to put that effort into Racket. I'm a geneticist who codes a lot at work. Perl, R, shell and a bit of C remain my workhorse languages for this, but I've gradually developed an interest in programming more generally, and I'm already building more and more new stuff in Racket while taking a more rigorous approach to the design process.



Have fun with Racket! :-)




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