[jlarocco]

I don't think the OP was "blaming" Haskell and OCaml as much as he was blaming the people trying to add Haskell and features and syntax to Swift and C++.

Haskell syntax works great for Haskell, because the whole language has consistent syntax for things like lazy evaluation and lambda functions. The problem is when people try to tack on those features to Swift or C++ and make it work with the ugly syntax from those languages, it ends up making it even uglier.

To me, the sample code looks like a bastardized mix of C++ and Haskell, and it's pretty hard to figure out what it's doing, even in the toy code samples.

[rubiquity]

Great point. Thank you for bringing out the distinction in OP's post.