Learn haskell.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Do it. It's amazing. It will make your a better programmer. It has a steep learning curve, but it will help you.

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[herzmeister]

FP is the future.

[Third Way]

Where did you as developers/coders began? Did you pick up a few books and went on about it on your own, or did you take courses in college?

[grondilu]

I've spent the last year or so learning Perl6 and while doing so I've heard a lot about Haskell in very good terms.

I definitely need to learn this thing.

[Ryland R. Taylor-Almanza]

Learning haskell is a lot of fun! For me, it wasn't so much about it being a good language. It was about wrapping my head around an entirely new concept in programming. Learning new languages is usually easy for me, because the popular ones usually share a lot of the same concepts. But purely functional programming is like an entirely different world!

[PatrickOMFG]

Where did you as developers/coders began? Did you pick up a few books and went on about it on your own, or did you take courses in college?

I mainly learned by reading various resources online found using Google.

Also, to anyone in this thread that actually wants to learn Haskell, I used this and found it helpful.

[ahdinosaur]

i'm trying to learn it right now: http://shuklan.com/haskell/.

[ElectricMucus]

obligatory..

[Geraldine]

It reminds me of Smalltalk. Anyone ever programmed in Smalltalk? 

[kokjo]

Haskell is an academic language,
and therefore has no future.

Also if OP's skills improved from Haskell'
 learning, why he is still using PHP !?

you post is entertaining, because of your closemindedness, but i feel sad for your unenlightened mind.

@OP: functional languages are really awesome, you can solve so many problems just by folding. have you seen typeclasses and monads yet?