If you're not on a purely intellctual trip, my advice is to first get a feeling for the language before trying to understand everything. Every widely used conce

If you're not on a purely intellctual trip, my advice is to first get a feeling for the language before trying to understand everything. Every widely used concept arises out a necessity and not out of thin air. Don't read all the monad-tutorial first. It's hard to understand not only why this abstract nonesense is useful, but even what it "is" (assuming you have no serious math background)! The interesting thing is that the concept arise naturally if you spend some time tinkering with haskell. The Functor arises almost instantly!