> But like a lot of Haskell much of this still goes over my head. It's not that hard, but it's easier to get one concept at a time. I'm less familiar with Hask

> But like a lot of Haskell much of this still goes over my head. It's not that hard, but it's easier to get one concept at a time. I'm less familiar with Haskell, but languages like Scheme/OCaml are routinely used to teach programming to beginners. Also there's no need to see a dichotomy between "IRL productivity" and "CS/FP". Even if you don't use Haskell directly, ideas from FP make their way to mainstream languages, either as constructs, or libraries, or simply programming style. Overall, the more programming paradigms you know, the easier it gets to learn new languages.