By now it's clear to me that your argument has reduced to "I personally don't like Haskell's syntax, therefore Haskell cannot generally be a good language." If

By now it's clear to me that your argument has reduced to "I personally don't like Haskell's syntax, therefore Haskell cannot generally be a good language." If you don't want to use Haskell, that's fine. Don't use it. If you have legitimate criticism, I'd like to hear it.