I love R and I love programming in it, but I have always thought I need to learn Julia due to a few things including speed, but that the R community keeps coming out with great answers to those questions where Julia keeps my interest. I don&#x27;t see how this would speed up my typical R programming or code to be worth learning Haskell. What am I missing and yes I read the whole article.<p>I have found Haskell very difficult to use with Cabal and its package management. The reason I went to Haskell was to teach myself functional programming. After struggling and going through 2 books I still felt like I hated Haskell due to making the environment just work. I work in three different locations and to get all 5 computers to work in Haskell was a serious pain. This lead me to see what else is out there. It lead me to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;proglang" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coursera.org&#x2F;course&#x2F;proglang</a> which introduced me to Racket and I loved it and felt that Racket was the perfect fit for me.