[Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

[Francesco Ariis]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:45:45PM +0200, Silvio Frischknecht wrote:
> Python would by my language of choice. You won't have to worry about low
> level stuff or typing, but can still write those step by step programs.

Amen brother! It's secondary school and I strongly suspect there won't
be much time available.

I love Haskell, but let's compare the time/effort to program a simple
game in Python/Lua and in Haskell and you'll see it just makes more sense
in this situation.