How to read Haskell like Python

To be fair, monadic code does not necessarily have side effects. It's just a useful way of thinking about computational steps. `Maybe` is a monad that is completely pure and has no side effects: <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/src/Data-Maybe.html#line-76" rel="nofollow">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/s...</a><p>I understand that this article is geared towards beginners, so this is probably just a simplification on the author's part. Other than that it's a great article.

I've tried to learn Haskell a couple times, and I keep running into the basic problem of not being able to search for info on terms like "&#62;&#62;=". If you don't know what it means, how do you find out? I certainly never knew until reading in this article that they were called "fish" operators. I previously tried to work through 3 or 4 different Haskell tutorials, and still didn't know this.<p>This article seems very helpful for simply enabling someone with Python experience to learn Haskell.

A set of useful lies.<p>Some of my co-workers were interested in learning to read Haskell, not so much in writing it. Let's see whether they like it.

For me, one of the biggest obstacles to understanding lots of Haskell code is opaque infix operators.

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I think the "dabbling" phase of learning a language is important, and this is the best intro for Haskell dabblers I've ever seen. Nice work, author.

Is it weird that I know haskell and not python? I think so.

Whoa, as a python guy, this makes me not want to learn Haskell at all. The syntax seems as bad a Perl.