What I'm saying is, don't let a minority of the community put you off. The "conventional wisdom" on how to learn Haskell, is wrong.
Thanks for the link. I see 5 benefits listed. Concise code; native code optimization (LLVM) and compilation; parallel and concurrent runtime; debuggers, profiling tools, refactoring, coverage, testing tools; library support, distribution mechanisms. With the exception of concise code, however, I think I get the rest with a combination of clang and a good static analyzer, no?
What's your static analyzer? It's probably written in OCaml, which some call the "practical Haskell".