[instig007]

> waaaay too many operators, etc.

Haskell doesn't have operators, it's based on expressions consisting of function compositions, some of which can be infix and look like operators.

> This is just a collection of words. No clue of what is a function call, what is a variable name, etc.

That's by design, because all of them are expressions that can either reduce immediately or require runtime data to reduce fully.

> How about you pick between 8 alternatives...

How about you pick either of those and start using for real, and then come to the point it either works well or you find inefficiencies to look specific alternatives for? It doesn't take much.