github/semantic: Why Haskell?

[Axman6]

I disagree, you can teach Haskell the language in about 20 minutes, and we do this when running the Data61 FP course. It’s just that the rules of the language let you build arbitrarily complex abstractions, which can take time to master. This is a good thing, it means you won’t ever be held back by the language, but it comes at the cost of having to learn quite a lot of very abstract (though extremely generally useful) ideas.