You're sort of painting a picture here of Haskell and all other languages skating towards some unknown target point, with Haskell skating the slowest. But, at t

You're sort of painting a picture here of Haskell and all other languages skating towards some unknown target point, with Haskell skating the slowest. But, at the risk of sounding like a fanboy, it could be that Haskell simply started out significantly closer to that target point, so that other languages are effectively skating towards it. In this way, both your statement and the parent's statement can be simultaneously true.