Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time

Re:Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time by wmf on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:03PM (#434272)

Pattern matching, also the lack of syntax for function calls (I realize there's a good reason for it).

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Re:Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time by jimbokun on Thursday January 15, 2009 @12:46PM (#435398)

"lack of syntax for function calls"

It recently dawned on me that this is what makes it hard for me to understand snippets of Haskell. Specifically, trying to parse the precedence relations in a sequence of tokens uninterrupted by any kind of punctuation.

Say what you will about Lisp, it is always very clear which arguments go to which functions, what the scoping boundaries are, etc.

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Re:Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time by eru on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @01:09AM (#441449)

In Haskell you can just put your parens like you would in Lisp.

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Re:Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time by ighost on Monday February 02, 2009 @11:34PM (#463503)

But a lot of people use $ syntax.

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