I'm with you, but you do get used to it. Basically if you just get your feet wet writing a few semi-significant programs in Haskell (e.g. a parser, which is a v

I'm with you, but you do get used to it. Basically if you just get your feet wet writing a few semi-significant programs in Haskell (e.g. a parser, which is a very common and pleasant task in Haskell), then you'll get familiar with it. The biggest hurdle for me came from being able to understand do-syntax (which is a bunch of applications of monadic bind).