[Haskell-cafe] Newbie question about Haskell skills progress

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

bf3:
> 
>    Having only a couple of days of practice programming Haskell
>    (but having read lots of books and docs), I find myself
>    writing very explicit low level code using inner "aux"
>    functions (accumulators and loops). Then I force myself  to
>    revise the code, replacing these aux functions with suitable
>    higher-order functions from the library. However, I would
>    like to use these higher order functions right away, without
>    using low-level aux constructs, which is most likely caused
>    by my very long history of imperative programming...
> 
> 
>    Is this the "normal" way of progressing in Haskell, or
>    should I consider a different approach?

I think this is normal: you start with manual loops, and you learn the
names for each loop form over time, using the combinator forms once
you're familiar with them.

Thanks for the insight!

-- Don