I think there are two different questions here. I agree that the semantics of operators such as >>= is a Good Thing and makes Haskell a Better Language Than Th

I think there are two different questions here. I agree that the semantics of operators such as >>= is a Good Thing and makes Haskell a Better Language Than The Competition, but I still think that the grammar and syntax (such as the significant whitespace rules, or the fact that <- and -> do totally different things) is poorly chosen. Haskell is as hidebound to the ML school as Perl is to the curly-brace school, and they both suffer for it.