[fredmorcos]

Thanks :) You've given me a lot to go through over the weekend.

Regarding Haskell, I used LYAH and the standard library documentation.

I agree that Haskell is not easy to learn and that the libraries require a lot of foundation before becoming understandable and/or usable (eg, Monoids -> Applicatives/Monads vs. "I just want to read the contents of this file into a string"). The language "proper" is built on extremely simple and straightforward concepts.