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" Powerful! It takes just a few lines to implement your own clone of Vim:"

Uh, ok lol.

" If SQL or Python read like an English sentence, then Haskell reads like math. Feels like math. It is math. "

This is basically why there's a learning curve. Any analogy used as a learning example will typically fall short because in order to fully grasp the concepts you just have to learn the math behind it, because that's by design (denotational semantics).