Most of us here are programmers, a lot of us professionals.

Music is the output of musicians, as perhaps code is the output of programmers.

But music comes in all kinds of flavours: classical vs jazz vs pop

Performance vs composition

Recital vs improvisation

And then choice of instrument within any of those areas.

I feel a lot of people misplace their aversion to Haskell because they fail to recognize how different Haskell is.

It's a bit like when English speakers think Chinese is a "hard" language. It's not, linguistically it's actually a pretty simple language (whether the script is easy/hard is up for grabs...)

Actually Chinese is just different to English so you have few anchors and familiar friends to base things off so it feels hard cos you're starting afresh, like a child. And yet children of a china manage quite fine learning chinese....

Meanwhile, ask a Spanish speaker about their experiences learning Portuguese...