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by the_af 1956 days ago
> you're using an uncommon reference point to explain the material that could be explained perfectly well without it

Should Haskell practitioners cater to C-like developers? If so, why bother with Haskell at all? This is one step removed from saying "just write an improved C and forget about Haskell", and in fact there have been attempts at it! It's just that they aren't Haskell.

Is it too much to ask of people trying to understand Haskell code to learn about it first?