>The fact that there is so much maths talk surrounding Haskell really doesn't help
Nor does it hurt. It only provides something for people to point to while they say "look, people are talking about something I am not interested in, therefore haskell is too hard and I shouldn't bother trying".
>And I've watched many, many discussions about Haskell go into deep arguments about category theory
You are not required to participate in any discussions you don't want to participate in.
>I want to write a program
So do it? The whole point of my post is that it is perfectly simple to do so. If a non-programmer can teach herself haskell and be productive with it, there's no reason a programmer can't.
Nor does it hurt. It only provides something for people to point to while they say "look, people are talking about something I am not interested in, therefore haskell is too hard and I shouldn't bother trying".
>And I've watched many, many discussions about Haskell go into deep arguments about category theory
You are not required to participate in any discussions you don't want to participate in.
>I want to write a program
So do it? The whole point of my post is that it is perfectly simple to do so. If a non-programmer can teach herself haskell and be productive with it, there's no reason a programmer can't.