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by scotty79 2135 days ago
> It does look weird to the foreign eyes, because it looks nothing like what you may encounter in your life when learning a natural language or math.

It also looks nothing like what programmer might encounter earlier when learning programming languages.

Actually I think Haskell seems to be a little bit similar to mathematical notations so it might be easier for mathematicians to learn than programmers. Unfortunately they don't really have a business case for knowing Haskell and they learn Python instead.