Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[bearophile]

Russel Winder:

> In the most recent "Open Source Journal", Uncle Bob has stated 
> that all you need to say is "no assignment" and you end up
> having to invent functional programming.

Near the end of this interview, Erik Meijer shows why removing 
assignments is not enough if there is multi threading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0N1aZ6SnBk#t=60m0s

Bye,
bearophile