[willtim]

IMHO if you are smart enough to complete an engineering degree you are easily smart enough to grok Haskell. It really is quite a simple language (compared to C++ and Scala anyway). Of course, like me, you might not grok everything that other people do with Haskell, but this is true for any language. I agree that Haskell is very different from imperative languages and that there can be a lot to learn before you can become productive.