[Haskell-cafe] about Haskell code written to be "too smart"

[Jake McArthur]

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Manlio Perillo wrote:
| But this may be really a question of personal taste or experience.
| What is more "natural"?
|
| 1) pattern matching
| 2) recursion
| or
| 1) function composition
| 2) high level functions

Definitely the latter two. They are easier to comprehend (assuming each
of the smaller abstractions are already internalized) and more
efficient. Arguably, this building-block approach is the whole *point*
of Haskell.

- - Jake
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