I think the sticky wicket with Haskell is less the terse syntax and more the execution model. Why not start enumerating the lines of a file, and show how we're

I think the sticky wicket with Haskell is less the terse syntax and more the execution model. Why not start enumerating the lines of a file, and show how we're building up a list of thinks, and there is no actual variable representing the line numbers because state is for Statists?