Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[bearophile]

Simen Kjaeraas:

> Absolutely. But whether purity should be the default or not is 
> orthogonal to this.
>
> I would have preferred opt-out purity to opt-in, but it's not 
> exactly make or break.

The colourful Erik Meijer says that specifying what functions are 
not pure is better than specifying what functions are pure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0N1aZ6SnBk#t=54m53s

Bye,
bearophile