Sure. I'm not saying I'm a good programmer.

I'm not sure why your comment is being down-voted, but I can say that my question to you definitely was not meant to imply that you might be a bad programmer. My only point is this: as a budding Haskell enthusiast I am constantly shocked by the difference in succinctness between my solutions and those of the experts. However, I would never say that because of my lack of familiarity with Haskell idioms Haskell is a verbose language.

The rote replacement of map with pmap will never work as a general solution because there is overhead involved with using pmap. The impact of the overhead requires thoughtfulness in usage on a case-by-case basis.