If all you've done is looked at tutorials and glimpsed at a book, I think it's very unlikely that you actually get the advantages or really understand any of th

If all you've done is looked at tutorials and glimpsed at a book, I think it's very unlikely that you actually get the advantages or really understand any of the patterns like Monads. Write some code. The only way that you'll actually grok the language and get any of the benefits from learning it is if you actually write code in it.