I think this[1] blogpost has one of the best introductions to Haskell syntax that I have ever seen, and it doesn't get lost in other stuff. Perhaps you might fi

I think this[1] blogpost has one of the best introductions to Haskell syntax that I have ever seen, and it doesn't get lost in other stuff. Perhaps you might find it useful. After some experience, I think the biggest pain point in Haskell's syntax is that it is very light on keywords so many things that would show up as syntax errors in other languages might show up as type errors in Haskell. For example, forgetting a comma in a list will result in a function application between the two list elements instead of a syntax error. [1] http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/ http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/