I think that Haskell has a lot of accidental complexity in many areas. There is a kind of pseudo-mathematical cargo cult that make some problems artificially difficult. 

2015-08-28 23:43 GMT+02:00 Francesco Ariis <fa-ml@ariis.it>:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:26:04AM +0300, Kosyrev Serge wrote:
> Now, how is this different from a comparison of the amount of effort
> spent on the relevant libraries?
>
> ..where the difference is still enormous, like multiple orders of magnitude.

That's exactly the point (amusingly illustrated in this comic [1]).

I must say the suggestion to use `diagrams` (made by Tikhon Jelvis)
makes really sense: it's fun, it's easy/quick to set up, it's powerful.


[1] http://gaspull.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/essays.png
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