Haskell is only esoteric if you understand programming to be mutating variable contents. Once you let go of this odd way of defining program logic, Haskell is a

Haskell is only esoteric if you understand programming to be mutating variable contents. Once you let go of this odd way of defining program logic, Haskell is actually a much simpler way to program, since you're writing your logic directly, instead of emulating it using mutation of state.