> and it's a completely unreadable mess that is clearly a line by line copy of the C code given I didn't find it unreadable, and I think the point was to copy

> and it's a completely unreadable mess that is clearly a line by line copy of the C code given I didn't find it unreadable, and I think the point was to copy the C implementation. I'm not sure what you were expecting. In any case the unfortunate state of parts of the haskell wiki isn't a good reason to feel one way or the other about the language.