Maybe this would be easier if you shared your definition of 'elegant'. > Haskell is the only one that I would call elegant on this list. But we were talking ab

Maybe this would be easier if you shared your definition of 'elegant'. > Haskell is the only one that I would call elegant on this list. But we were talking about modern. Haskell is 30 years old, I would not call that modern. Also Haskel and Lisp can be written (just like C macros if you want) to birth an entire different syntax if that's your kink. The only mention of 'modern' in this thread was with respect to Java... you know, the one with record types which eliminate a lot of boilerplate? I'm not sure why age should count against Haskell, when you agree that it is 'elegant'? I should point out that the Haskell of 30 years ago is very different from Haskell today. I'm not even sure what we're arguing about at this point.