Programming requires breadth of knowledge

Is learning Haskell about tackling Big Ideas?

For readers who haven’t figured it out already, my shtick is arguing that the pragmatic experience of Haskell doesn’t have to be substantially different from any other language. Here I want to combat the notion that learning Haskell is primarily about grasping some hard core concepts.

Folks seem to expect and perhaps want the language to have a few Deep …