[the_af]

It's not a good idea to try reading Haskell by "brute force", trying to figure it out as you go.

I suggest you first read through something that teaches you the basics like "Learn You a Haskell" or similar.

In a way, the experience is more like Clojure than Javascript. If you've read a Java-like language before, figuring another one tends to be easy. But if you've never read a Lisp-like, all the Java-like experience in the world won't help you to read a non-trivial Lisp program. You will just see some weird parentheses and won't be able to make head or tails of it.

Haskell is similar. Some upfront learning is needed before reading non-trivial programs.