The "joke" was that Haskell looks very different from most popular programming languages, and that folks who think it "looks cooler than Python" are likely reac

The "joke" was that Haskell looks very different from most popular programming languages, and that folks who think it "looks cooler than Python" are likely reacting to its indecipherability combined with the fact that it's clearly doing something interesting. At least Python programmers have a sense of humor.