I have been to so many technical conferences and heard so many podcasts where code developers, even functional programmers, have labeled Haskell as an out of reach language only approachable by academics in their ivory towers. This talk would seek to put this rumor to rest. I will go through an overview of what functional programming is and what makes the Haskell language a pure functional programming language, provide an easy introduction to Haskell from the perspective of a procedural or object-oriented programmer, and then demonstrate an example of an N64 emulator I coded in Haskell as a real-world example of what Haskell can do.