I'm not familiar with the author and his expertise, but he might benefit from this: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/ http://blog.ezyang.com/2

I'm not familiar with the author and his expertise, but he might benefit from this: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/ http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/ And maybe also this: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_read_Haskell http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_read_Haskell I consider myself a newb in Haskell (and functional programming in general), and didn't see anything too mystifying in the code, other than it takes a declarative approach (well, Control.Arrow.first is maybe the only 'exotic' thing, but it otherwise looks rather straightforward).