I think you're misunderstanding the point of my comment. Keep in mind the point of the original article: "For a language famed for its terseness, Haskell it tur

I think you're misunderstanding the point of my comment. Keep in mind the point of the original article: "For a language famed for its terseness, Haskell it turns out, isn’t as terse as expected - it’s average size of source code is larger than the average Go source code size." I'm responding to this. Languages with many escape hatches like Haskell or Swift will result in less idiomatic code (and potentially longer programs) when optimized for the benchmarks games. Languages with less escape hatches like Go and Ocaml less so. I don't have anything against any of these languages. Feel free to write C-like code in Haskell if you want.