Probably a silly question, but for me one of the nice things about Haskell is that it's a lot like just writing math(s).  But in contrast to math you lose a lot of notational flexibility being limited to the ascii character set in your source code.  

 

It would be nice to be able to use a richer set of symbols in your source code for operators and functions (e.g. integral, sum, dot and cross-product, …),  as well as variables (the standard upper and lower-case greek for example, along with things like super- and sub-scripting, bold/italic and what-not).  You could imagine ending up with source code that reads just like a mathematical paper.

 

Don't know how I'd actually then write/maintain the source-code - some WYSIWYG editor or effectively writing it in '(la)tex'?  Maybe that's what Knuth is on about with his 'literate programming' weave/tangle stuff which I don't know much about - does that translate to Haskell?

 

Patrick

 

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