I'm guilty of frequently recommending this book. I think it's wonderful, but I also rarely am clear about it being something of a challenge to get through. This

I'm guilty of frequently recommending this book. I think it's wonderful, but I also rarely am clear about it being something of a challenge to get through. This post reflects both on that challenge and the underlying "decoder key" for beginning to scrape meaning out of the book. So now I will highly recommend reading this post and then reading Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design.