Re: 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