This post explores the differences in those two styles: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/10/beginner-friendly-code-and-apis http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/1

This post explores the differences in those two styles: http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/10/beginner-friendly-code-and-apis http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2015/10/beginner-friendly-code-... > It seems like my progression as a Haskeller results in forcing myself to write in a harder-to-parse style to make my code shorter, to satisfy some base need for "better" code, even though by most measurements I just made, the longer/explicit/pattern matching code is in fact better.