&gt; The Haskell crowd seems to write monad tutorials that are either cute or unintellegible, and stratosphere-high level stuff where I wouldn&#x27;t have the slightest clue what I can use them for (Arrows? Zippers?).<p>There are &quot;Real World&quot; Haskell resources, in fact there is even a book named Real World Haskell[0], though I recommend Haskell Book[1] these days since it takes an approach of teaching from first principles.<p>0: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;book.realworldhaskell.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;book.realworldhaskell.org&#x2F;</a><p>1: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellbook.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;haskellbook.com&#x2F;</a>