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> This is a great Haskell demo because it shows that you can’t hide this code anywhere. It stares back at you with all its ugliness.

i enjoyed your comment and these last two lines in particular. different programmers might interpret these lines in completely different ways: one as a critique of haskell for not being able to tidy the details away to make the code appear simpler, another as praise of haskell for making these mechanics explicit.