Re:What Is Good About Haskell?
by nicoburns on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:07AM
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There's no reason why it should be more familiar. But it is more familiar to the huge number of developers who are used to ALGOL/C family languages.
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The word “should” can also be “used to indicate what is probable” (according to the OED). I think that's the way GP intended to use it. As in, "why is it probable that the syntax is more familiar?"