> in Haskell's case, there's a higher chance than with most languages that I'm going to come across people who will proclaim I'm stupid if I don't immediately a

> in Haskell's case, there's a higher chance than with most languages that I'm going to come across people who will proclaim I'm stupid if I don't immediately and from birth know why XYZ abstraction is amazing and universally good It's terribly sad if this is true because it wasn't the case before. Haskellers used to be very welcoming and very tolerant of beginners struggling with the language, because we had all been through the same struggles ourselves. I hope I'm correct when I say that the two public Haskell fora that I participate in (Haskell Reddit and haskell-cafe) would never proclaim anyone as stupid.