Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[renoX]

On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 at 16:01:27 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/26/12 9:11 AM, renoX wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 19:37:42 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> I've often heard that claim, but here's an article with what 
>>> the
>>> substance is:
>>>
>>> http://dubhrosa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/lessons-learning-haskell.html?m=1
>>>
>>> Note that D offers this style of programming, with checkable 
>>> purity,
>>> immutability and ranges. I think it is a very important 
>>> paradigm.
>>
>> Bleah, one good practice that I like to follow is to 
>> (optionaly) log
>> what my functions do, so it doesn't match well with "IO change 
>> the type
>> of your function"..
>
> debug statements to the rescue!
>
> Andrei

Yes of course, but what I was objecting is the article's take 
that IO should change the type of the function: that's an 
oversimplification..
This is not true for debug/logging statements.

renoX