Not exactly aesthetic. if any, the effect is an aestetic  recharged and baroque. I think that all programming languages fall in a kind of religion when they are in fashion. And  religion this is not what a languages are is made for. A language is a tool whose rules of beauty must be simplicity and understandability as well as composability. 

 It is not a tool for personal exhibition neither an excuse for the formation of closed groups of initiated. In which case, simplicity, understandability and composability is what that second kind of people will oppose as much as they can.

In practice everything is a mix of both, and programming languages are not an exception. Haskell is in fashion so...


2015-08-29 0:31 GMT+02:00 Donn Cave <donn@avvanta.com>:
quoth "Alberto G. Corona " <agocorona@gmail.com>

> 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.

Perhaps that's an esthetic thing, does this struggle make it more beautiful?

        Donn
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