Sorry to hear of your struggles. There has been a lot of work lately on writing Haskell tutorials but there's still a long way to go, unfortunately, as I discovered when I tried recently to find the collection of sample code fragments on the wiki that I'm sure are around somewhere. I had the advantage of coming to Haskell after already having used ML and Common Lisp. But, FWIW, I found it worth persevering: I liked a lot of my legacy Perl scripts more after I ported them to Haskell and now I use Haskell for the sort of thing I might have used bash or perl for previously. (For instance, on the way home last night my GPS' NMEA-0183 data was odd enough that I used Haskell to write a simple daemon that sits between clients and my gpsd and rewrites their conversation; previously, I'd have used Perl for that.) Though, it helps if you get on well with Perl. It didn't suit me very well so I had more motivation to switch than you might. But, now, by choice, I do use Haskell for the kind of thing I'd have previously used a short script for instead, so there might still be light at the end of the tunnel for you. -- Mark