It says something about the Haskell language -- that it has near infinite power for abstraction and Don't Repeat Yourself-ism. Most Haskell code is fancy becaus

It says something about the Haskell language -- that it has near infinite power for abstraction and Don't Repeat Yourself-ism. Most Haskell code is fancy because if anything else had a large amount of mass, it could be abstracted to higher-level Haskell. Haskell programs have size approximately "log(size of program in another language) ^ k" because anything repetitive can get squeezed out.