[cnntth]

As a freshman who took the course that uses this book, I can say I'm still cursing the name. I figure some of the value will become clearer, but aside from commenting functions clearly and testability of code, I don't think I got much of value from it.

[nixpulvis]

I've seen the benefits of teaching freshman (and anyone) functional programming first.

The "comments" are really an introduction to type systems, along with general good practice.

The ability to describe a function by purely it's signature without the presence of mutation makes reasoning through hard problems more straightforward.