> you can't learn Haskell in a lecture unless you already knew SML or OCaml, and even then probably not.

I just want to emphasize this part because it's really quite true, as someone who came to it from F#/OCaml.

The thing with learning "haskell", is that there's faar more to it than learning the basic language constructs. You can learn haskell the language in about a day, but you can't really learn haskell the paradigm/philosophy/mathematical discipline in a day, much less actually program haskell that quickly.

That being said, it's not as difficult as it's made out to be, the mountain you need to climb is much shorter than people realize. The issue is largely one of jargon, and getting used to using and thinking in all the new terms and concepts that really have few equivalents in other languages.