I don't really buy this argument that Haskell's symbolic operators make it harder to read than Perl. Haskell has a very precise and simple rule that syntactica

I don't really buy this argument that Haskell's symbolic operators make it harder to read than Perl. Haskell has a very precise and simple rule that syntactically delimits operators from non-operators. Furthermore it has the type system to help you infer semantics. AFAIK Perl doesn't have either of these benefits. Granted, there still may be too much of a tendency for Haskellers to use operators, but lack of clarity to Perl level? Come on!