There's no conspiracy; programming in Haskell is the most fun I've ever had with a computer. The "if it compiles, it works" thing describes people's experience

There's no conspiracy; programming in Haskell is the most fun I've ever had with a computer. The "if it compiles, it works" thing describes people's experience. It isn't always true and it isn't a valid excuse not to do proper testing, but in Haskell a non-working solution is usually at least broken in a way that makes sense in the context of the problem you're trying to solve. If you program an incorrect solution to a problem, you'll probably get a wrong answer. But a wrong answer is different than nonsense, which is what you get if, say, you write past the end of an array in C. The Haskell type system is a very good nonsense filter, and probably a majority of programming errors are from telling the program to do something nonsensical. If you filter those out, sometimes what's left is a working program. A Haskell programmer is unlikely to write a several thousand line program and have it work correctly the first time, but even large programs are written in small pieces. When those small pieces work correctly the first time, it's gratifying.