What was the most fun language to learn?

I don't know why people say that Haskell has such a steep learning curve. It's my second functional language (after a quick flirt with Scheme) and it's a blast to learn. Most fun I had since first learning Pascal. Other than Haskell, learning Perl was not that bad and obviously good old Pascal because it was easy to grasp in a matter of minutes.

So what about you, prog?

P.S. I'm curious to see the correlation between fun-to-learn and popularity, especially since, learning a new language is usually one of the most boring tasks for a programmer.

Python.

The syntax was simple as hell, learned it within 48 hours.

Haven't actually used it though, but hey, who cares!

Probably Common Lisp. I'm still terrible at it, but I really enjoy using it. Overall I still prefer Haskell, but I would say that CL is more "fun".

>>3
Same here.  It's my first Lisp.

I want to try writing my own toy Lisp implementation, now...

Python and Scheme.

Haskell. LYAH is great.

>>1
Mostly same as you, Scheme first and Haskell second. I also enjoyed learning Forth.
I love Scheme, and the mental masturbation behind Haskell.

Perl 6. Rambling through the avenues of implementation(s) is fun too.

>>8
Agreed.

LISP is fun too(i'm just starting with SICP) but things like roles, junctions and crazy operators steal the show

I think Squeak Smalltalk is by far the most fun language/environment. Its still way ahead of its time, working in Smalltalk is like experiencing what programming will become 20 years from now.

logo (i leik turtles)

Python and D

>>1
Learning Common Lisp (my first Lisp) by reading Land of Lisp was really fun, I still haven't really learned the language yet but I'm getting there!

The Little Schemer is fucking fantastic.

>>13
No wonder. Land of Lisp is a terrible book.

>>15
4/10.

I enjoyed learning lisp, although it took a while. Lua was also fun. Building complicated, inefficient, and esoteric object systems and trying to make stuff with them is always fun.

>>13
But did it blow your mind?

>>1
Bonerlang

CDP1802 assembly language.

>>18
Nah, or well. I can't really remember.

>>20
Think about getting your money back, because it's ``guaranteed to blow your mind''.

>>18
Bonerlang
too hard.

>>22
It grows on you.