Interesting, readability is something I would put on a list of upsides of Haskell. I agree that the abundant use of operators can make things difficult in some

Interesting, readability is something I would put on a list of upsides of Haskell. I agree that the abundant use of operators can make things difficult in some cases, but this is largely naivety on the part of the reader rather than complexity like Perl. Perl's obfuscated one-liners are just vanilla things that every perl programmer will understand, while Haskell's weird lines are generally package specific operators that one needs to become familiar with. Once familiar (unlike in Perl) a seasoned Haskeller will be able to grok a lot of what is going on very quickly. As a further point, the strictness of it all makes understanding the entire system a much easier experience than many other languages.