>Keep in mind that writing something like this is not actually going to be perceived as helpful to most people who may have difficulty with Haskell

No, but hopefully it well help people who have yet to learn Haskell that not everyone thinks it's particularly difficult. I'm not interested in convincing the people who've tried and given up on it.

>That's great, but to people for whom they don't come so easily, this could easily be considered discouraging, or else bragging.

So what do you propose? That I pretend it's really hard for me, even though it's not? What effect do you think that's going to have?

>So unless you're SPJ or beyond, I wouldn't be quick to claim that Haskell isn't "unusually hard to learn."

You don't have to be SPJ to learn Haskell (or talk about how hard it is). Do I have to be Stroustrup to pass judgement on how hard it is to learn C++?

>In particular people who are older and have "work/life balance," ... and the life part of that work/life balance doesn't allow much time to do so.

I obviously don't mean that Haskell is easy for every single person in the world to learn; I mean that, as far as languages go, it's relatively easy enough to learn. If I didn't have enough time to learn Haskell, I also wouldn't have enough time to learn C++ or Python.

> but just maybe don't be so glib to claim it is not hard.

Again, what do you propose? Lie and tell people that it's super hard, so I don't hurt their feelings if they can't figure it out?