Mirroring some of the comments here, just because you don't understand the internals does not mean you can't pick it up and be productive with it. This is what

Mirroring some of the comments here, just because you don't understand the internals does not mean you can't pick it up and be productive with it. This is what you do with any other language, but it just seems more natural to you (even though they are really just as complicated). Hence I feel like one of the big issues is that people learn to program in a non declarative/imperative way. When you first pick up python / c / c++ etc, there are plenty of details you don't necessarily understand (who here has absorbed all of the c++ spec?). At most Haskell is just different and I don't think it requires more mental effort than anything else.