If you want to have another go at it, I recommend Learn you a Haskell for Great Good (available online for free at http://learnyouahaskell.com/) for your Haskell learning needs. Don't stress the Monads and Arrows so much. I know what arrows do, but can't spot their applications in practice. And still I get paid for writing Haskell programmes.
Oh, and please excuse my snarky tone. Your ancestor comment seemed to ask for it. Yes, they are, even now, languages around that are even worse. But better ways have been around for ages. A similar example is garbage collection: It, too, has been around since basically the dawn of programming languages, but only made serious inroads into the mainstream in the last decades.
Oh, and please excuse my snarky tone. Your ancestor comment seemed to ask for it. Yes, they are, even now, languages around that are even worse. But better ways have been around for ages. A similar example is garbage collection: It, too, has been around since basically the dawn of programming languages, but only made serious inroads into the mainstream in the last decades.