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So you're saying it's perfectly feasible to become an expert C++ programmer over a weekend, but it's completely impossible to learn Haskell?

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OP says he's a C# programmer and doing the solution in C++ was straightforward and he had the time to test it + look for C++ patterns.

First weeks in Haskell as an average joe programmer you'll spend getting your brain wrapped around lazy eval being the default.