I hang out on another forum that is populated by various kinds of computer geeks. There's a fair few programmers in there, as well as nerds of every degree. And yet, every time I post anything written in Haskell, everybody complains that it "looks like line noise". (...)
I have to say we haskellers are guilt of that too. Many messages in this list says C looks line noise. There are many arguments we can use to say Haskell is better than other languages. The only one I take seriously is: it fits our way of thinking. Other people like to think in other ways. I'm an engineer, and the only way I can deal with engineering is through abstract math. Many engineers better than me refuse to use math at all. I see so many people advocating Haskell and functional programming. I would like to sugest: why don't we advocate against "monocultures"? An environment where anyone can use whatever language they like is so easy to get this days, and would have far better results. IMHO. Best, Maurício