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by zerr 39 days ago
I once saw a real world Haskell code (from a huge investment bank) - the abundance of single letter variable names and short cryptic function names was striking.
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Half the time the function names are operators, so you end up with an explosion of typographical symbols that makes perl look like cobol. Not my favorite aspect of the Haskell ecosystem.
You forgot the 10 levels of precedence and the 3 associativity options for operators ;)
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