> To me, it’s a bit like saying that if you already know English, then learning a second language will be more difficult for you than if you didn’t know any language.

To master a first native language takes at least about 16 years for most people ... I think you can reasonably master a second language way faster by leveraging language analogies. I also have a very hard time believing that learning Haskell is easier if you lack programming experience in imperative languages.

> along with learning Emacs, but they are mere constituents in a continually growing pile of stuff I still need to learn.

At no point she gives a reason for why to learn Haskell in the first place. I mean you only have so much time - why spend time learning Emacs just out of nowhere?

> True Confession: I didn’t know Github existed until I started learning Haskell; I didn’t even know what version control was. So, as I was starting with Haskell, I had Linux, Git, an invitation to join an IRC channel (a wut?)

So where is her GitHub repo? Can't find the link. There is probably a lot of very smart Haskell code to be found, I guess.

> Honestly, I still don’t really understand why people like imperative and OO languages.

She writes that she has no experience in other language paradims but she does know why it's worse than functional approach? Sure ...

The only thing missing in this post is a humblebrag comment about how she just got a dev position at Google ...