I learnt (somewhere around 15 years ago) Haskell as 6th programming language and I remember finding it very confusing while my friends who had never programmed before didn't have as much issues with it. The second language they got taught was Java and after Haskell they very much disliked it. All of them (of course...) ended up as Java programmers in boring banking (etc) projects, but I do remember how they liked Haskell over it. Now, Java isn't exactly Python...