Never did I assert the need to learn category theory to write Haskell. I was speaking of my own experience and if you can understand the underlying category and

Never did I assert the need to learn category theory to write Haskell. I was speaking of my own experience and if you can understand the underlying category and type theory that goes on behind the scenes implicitly and can write Haskell programs without ever thinking of the theory behind them that is awesome. Personally I don’t like languages that feel like magic so I strive to learn what is behind the abstractions and for me that meant getting a deeper understanding of category theory. Furthermore I feel as a computer scientist the more math I can learn and absorb the deeper my understanding grows on a multitude of subjects. Sorry if my post came off as flipped I was simply trying to use humour to accentuate the difference in the conceptualization of Haskell vs. a non-pure procedural language.