<i>You can find out what the tone of the book is by checking out the sample provided on the book&#x27;s website. No need to speculate.</i><p>You&#x27;re right. I shouldn&#x27;t have implied anything about the book based on this blog post. That&#x27;s unreasonable. I have things I dislike about this post, but that doesn&#x27;t imply anything about your book.<p>I should&#x27;ve been clearer when I first wrote my post that there&#x27;s no major content in your post that I disagree with. There are a lot of things to learn before you can write actual applications in Haskell (I&#x27;ve been at it for awhile, and am just really getting to understand Monad Transformers). But I do think that paragraph is a bad way to put the point. It reminds me of when a student two years older than me tried to intimidate me by asking if I knew what a <i>RECIPROCAL</i> was.<p>I also think that the $BOZOLANG comment is a bad idea. Haskell has a stereotype that it&#x27;s users look down on everyone else. You may think it&#x27;s a nice little joke, but I&#x27;m not sure if it will translate to people who already worry about whether they&#x27;re smart enough for Haskell.