> It got to the point where I'd see a post from Warp saying that Haskell 
> sucks because of X, and I'd spent half an hour trying to come up with a 
> reason why X is false. It ceased to be about the truth, and about wanting 
> to be right. I *wanted* Haskell to be the best.
>
> But wanting something to be true doesn't make it true. And, unfortunately 
> for me, Warp is right, as usual. Haskell sucks. And no amount of words 
> from me is going to change it. My pride and joy actually sucks, and I 
> can't do anything about it.

It's not rare for programmers to take something they like and try to prove 
to everyone else that it's the best. You're not alone in doing that. You're 
doing two things here though:

 - Realizing that you made a mistake (good)
 - Telling yourself that you're hopeless because of it (bad).

Just because you may have lost some rationality by over-defending haskell 
doesn't mean that you've wasted your time learning it, or even that it's a 
bad language. You've gotta stop dragging yourself down like that. Identify 
your mistakes, learn from them, and move on. Haskell is still useful and 
you're better off for knowing it.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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