[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

[Andrew Coppin]

Eduard Sergeev wrote:
> OK, my version of meaningless statistics:
>
> C++ (ISO/IEC 14882:1998(E)): 325 pages (712 including standard libraries)
> C# (ECMA-334): 505 pages (language only)
> Java: 450 pages (language only?)
> Scala (2.7): 125 pages (157 including standard library)
> Eiffel (ECMA-367): 160 pages (language only) 
> ANSI SQL-92: 685 pages (language only)
> Haskell-98: 77 pages (247 including Prelude)
> Erlang (4.7.3) 162 pages (251 including builtin functions) 
> Scheme (R5RS): 17 pages (45 including standard procedures)
>   

Interesting. So Scheme is the shortest by a mile, followed by Haskell 
'98, followed by another big gap.

Now is that because Haskell is simple? Or is it because the Report 
assumes that you already know what functional programming and 
Milner-Hindley type inference are?