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Not to mention humor -- there's a reference in SQLite to Golding's Lord of the Flies -- and I'm guessing more.
I won't comment on how quicksort-y this is, but the combination of pattern matching and recursion is bread-and-butter Haskell. A number of seemingly complex algorithms can be implemented in a similar way.

Having said that, it is elegant and clean and -- taken by itself -- does make Haskell very attractive.