[pizza]

> High level programming languages have to be as close as possible to human languages (English) not to some obscure mathematical concepts and notation that most people don't care about.

Haskell wasn't created for "most people". It's not some replacement for Python or Ruby, it was designed for formality.

[ccdan]

I don't know who it was created for, but I know lots of FP advocates (Haskellers included) whining that FP languages aren't used (almost at all) in the software industry.