[Haskell-cafe] Line noise
Andrew Coppin
andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Mon Sep 22 02:27:54 EDT 2008
Dan Piponi wrote:
> I suspect that most of the complaints about line noise stem
> from this - to beginners Haskell expressions just look like sequences
> of identifiers with no apparent grammar to "bind" them together.
>
This was the exact complaint that some people voiced, yes. (The (.) and
($) operators just compound the problem.)
Somebody else then came to my rescue and pointed out that "everybody
says Lisp is unreadable because it has too many brackets - despite the
fact that those brackets theoretically make parsing utterly trivial". ;-)
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