Related: I literally bought a book to try to help wrap my head around the mathy ideas in Haskell (recommended by someone here, I believe). I am about to start it: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Book_of_Abstract_Algeb...

That said, if you have to understand a sufficient amount of math concepts to code in a language... that's an impediment. (Perhaps an empowering learning curve, to be sure.)