"Alex Queiroz"
This is so much true. It has the effect of disguising Haskell as a PhD-only language.
And what would be wrong with Haskell being a PhD-only language, if it were true? OK, so I'm not genuinely suggesting that you must possess or be studying for a PhD, to grok Haskell. But I find nothing alarming about the suggestion that one needs a fairly high level of intelligence, and some training, in order to be able to use Haskell effectively. After all, we would expect the same attributes (intelligence and training) from a neurosurgeon, a nuclear scientist, or someone who calculates how to land a person on the moon. Programming computers may not seem very skilled to most people, but maybe that is simply because we are so familiar with it being done so badly. I'm all for improving the quality of software, and the corollary is that that means improving the quality of programmers (by stretching our brains!). Regards, Malcolm