[volument]

This is exactly what happened to me: I did not take a further look on Haskell just because its syntax seemed so weird.

[dunefox]

That's like saying you don't want to learn things you don't already know.

[smabie]

With that kind of attitude, you're not going to learn very much. You should take the opposite approach: be more interested the weirder the thing is.

[volument]

Being interesting is not enough when you are picking a language for your next major project.