Maybe things have changed since 2005 when I first used it but Haskell was certainly harder for me and the people I knew to learn than other languages. For langu

Maybe things have changed since 2005 when I first used it but Haskell was certainly harder for me and the people I knew to learn than other languages. For languages of a similar power I can see Haskell being similar difficulty to learn. But compared with something like Python the amount of effort needed to go from zero knowledge to being able to write some sort of program that produces some useful real world results is much higher in Haskell. I say this as someone who quite likes Haskell, when you have a problem that fits well with Haskell it's really amazing.