erlang is called out as being ugly purely from hearsay I have no preconceptions about Erlang. I've never seen the opinion that Erlang is ugly, and your code ab

erlang is called out as being ugly purely from hearsay I have no preconceptions about Erlang. I've never seen the opinion that Erlang is ugly, and your code above is the first Erlang I've ever seen. I also know nothing about Haskell, but I found the Haskell example to be the most elegant. So, a more reasonable conclusion: The fact that two people found the code ugly suggests that it is ugly.