Chambers wrote:

> Consider that I'd never even *heard* of Haskell before I read your posts 
> here.  In fact, I *still* haven't gotten around to learning LISP, Ruby, 
> Perl, Python, Smalltalk, Lua, or any of a number of languages, although 
> I *have* looked at them and considered learning them.

I looked at Clean. It isn't.

I also looked at F#. And didn't like it much. Ditto for Erlang. And 
Lisp. And Prolog. (But that was a very long time ago...)

> In fact, C# is the first time in about 10 years now that I'm learning a 
> *new* language, and its only a derivative of the ones I already know.

You're talking to somebody who learned PostScript in their lunch break 
one day. Just for the fun of it. BECAUSE I WAS BORED!!

Holy crap, I need a different job! o_O

> Getting people to invest time into something like learning a new 
> language is difficult, at least, and close to impossible, in many 
> situations.  Just keep plugging, and don't lose hope :)

Woah... and here I am trying to get people to learn something that's so 
fundamentally weird it freaks Pixar employees out... o_O

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