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Also recommend using the following IDE tooling: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server

Especially easy to setup if you're using VSCode. Lots of Haskell code forgoes type annotations so with this plugin you can simply hover your mouse over things to see the exact type the compiler inferred.

Agreed. The advice from K&R applies, "the way to learn a new language is to write programs in it."

This is good advice. It seems like many people get stuck in a rut of thinking they need to study, study, study before they will be productive. That's backwards. Start building things right away; you'll immediately perceive what you need to understand next, and why.

Good advice for learning any programming language.

for some reason i treated haskell differently when i learned it. IDK why, probably because it was tied so closely to functional programming. Yeah it should be treated like any other language I think