Haskell is very much like academia. It just makes folks go "fuck this" in the first year.

Giving Haskell to first year students sounds like the professors wanted a good laugh.

Unlike academia though, Haskell is significantly ahead of its time, for example, it manages to have exemplary IDE integration despite the fact that it's older than the concept of an IDE.

Also unlike academia, Haskell is free and not motivated to force you to spend unnecessary resources retaking courses you already passed by setting an arbitrary deadline to finish your course after which you must re-apply and your credits are not considered.

@lorentz I don't use an IDE and argentinian higher education is free ;>