Also as someone who doesn't know Haskell at all, I have great difficulty reading Haskell. I dont think I would have that kind of problem reading a language with a more traditional syntax.
Right, but then you'd lose the benefit of Haskell being a very different language. To implement Haskell using C-style syntax would make it extremely awkward to make liberal use of Haskell's powerful features. In particular, Haskell's syntax is optimized to make fully/partially applying functions as quiet as possible. This really shines in conjunction with the ability to define your own operators -- including their fixity -- so you can wage an all-out assault on parentheses!
Oh dear lord, you misunderstand me. I dont want to implement Haskell in C-style. Haskell is good being haskell, I just had difficulty understanding it and never had enough time to dive deep into it. But now I may.
That's good of you. This problem (familiarity) plagues many upstart technologies. Taking the generality even further, it could be argued that the status quo bias is one of the most difficult-to-overcome aspects of human nature and that its effects on society are extremely widespread.
Right, but then you'd lose the benefit of Haskell being a very different language. To implement Haskell using C-style syntax would make it extremely awkward to make liberal use of Haskell's powerful features. In particular, Haskell's syntax is optimized to make fully/partially applying functions as quiet as possible. This really shines in conjunction with the ability to define your own operators -- including their fixity -- so you can wage an all-out assault on parentheses!