Haskell wasn't simply sugaring the regular C design patterns. The C that the compiler generated was nothing like the C that you would normally write. A better

Haskell wasn't simply sugaring the regular C design patterns. The C that the compiler generated was nothing like the C that you would normally write. A better example would be Objective C compiling to C. And I would agree that early Objective C wasn't really a language that added new paradigms to C. It sugared good coding practices for the most part, and did little else. As a result, I generally recommended a combination of the K&R book and the ObjC language spec to learn it -- buying books for ObjC was a waste of time, since it was such a thin wrapper around C. Coffeescript is in a similar position.