[lextori]

It is easier to pull out scary and obscure bits of code from languages that have arcane syntax. I'm sure that it'd be pretty easy to find some c++ code that is even more difficult to read.

The whole article seemed to me to be a big "waahh this is hard, and looks funny" rather than a serious discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of functional programming.

[Lambdanaut]

I agree. Also, the code examples were very poor in making any point. Coming from somebody with a functional background but with no Erlang experience, the Erlang was trivially clear to me in its purpose.

The Haskell would be much clearer if it wasn't missing a type signature.