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The problem is with your argument is that that sort of observation is purely subjective. It's based on your experience. It's almost a trope for a discussion about lisps to have someone make the claim 'All those parenthesis are ugly!' and have some lispers chime in with 'Really, its not that bad! I hardly see them at all!'

I've learnt that hard way that writing off a language because you hate the syntax from your initial impressions to be a _huge_ mistake. I used to detest Haskell's syntax for so many reasons after suffering through courses about it at university. Now that I actually know haskell a little, and understand the why behind all those syntax choices, it makes a lot of sense and is a really smart syntax choice.




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