Well, I thought about saying that with Haskell, it was semantics at least as much as syntax. By that, I meant what you meant, but I also meant more: I wonder if functional programming itself is a poor match to the way that most programmers think, and not just because they are untrained on FP.

But I didn't say that, because I thought it was a bit of a digression to my point, which was already a digression on phkahler's point, and the digressing has to end somewhere...