On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Hypothesis: The fact that the average Haskeller thinks that this kind of dense cryptic material is "pretty garden-variety" notation possibly explains why normal people think Haskell is scary.
Maybe, but the notation is still clearer than most programming notations for expressing the same ideas. Most "normal" people don't realize that mathematicians discovered the constructs for expressing structures and computations 50 to hundreds of years before the invention of the semiconductor, or that the mathematician's goal of "elegant" expression is pragmatic. Elegant expressions of a problem and its solutions are the easiest to work with.
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