It's not "Haskell syntax" - the language itself doesn't have that many syntactic constructs. The "line noise" feeling comes from the ability to define new opera

It's not "Haskell syntax" - the language itself doesn't have that many syntactic constructs. The "line noise" feeling comes from the ability to define new operators with custom precedence and associativity and the fact that people use the custom operators for everything. I don't know why it is so - OCaml also allows you to define your own operators, but OCaml programmers tend to use that ability much less frequently.