I think part of the issue with learning haskell is that it seems to invert the typical learning strategy for programming languages. Usually the best advice is

I think part of the issue with learning haskell is that it seems to invert the typical learning strategy for programming languages. Usually the best advice is read a little, then write a lot. Typically you can just look and some published code and go "ah yes that's how you do it". But I find, for better or worse, Haskell really requires you to understand before you code. Which in the end means your study to code ratio is very different than almost any other language. Most languages, even lisps, are somewhat tolerant of 'programming by guessing' for beginners. Usually you write terrible code that works, learn more and see what you did wrong. Haskell is very unforgiving of this, if you don't understand why it works it probably won't