"True, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however even if I believe there are beautiful thing which may need considerable effort and understanding to app

"True, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however even if I believe there are beautiful thing which may need considerable effort and understanding to appreciate the true elegance of it I cannot imagine such thing being ugly at the first sight." It's always the same reason why people dislike new languages. People don't realize, that they can't look open-minded at a new language, if they already know a language. Because they will always compare the new to the already known language. Most people are only open-minded if they learn their first language, after that, everything else is just ugly compared to the first one. You just can't decide if something is ugly, until you have learned it, understood the meaning of the syntax, how all the single parts of a language fit together. Haskell is nothing like Perl. It's one of the most beautiful and well-thought-out language I saw until now. Absolutely nothing compared to the auto magic of Perl.