I can understand the sentiment. I was a Lisper before I came to Haskell, and initially, the syntax seemed verbose and unnecessary. As it turns out though, the s

I can understand the sentiment. I was a Lisper before I came to Haskell, and initially, the syntax seemed verbose and unnecessary. As it turns out though, the syntax is very simple and well designed. There's just a lot of optional sugar, which also happens to be well designed.