On 02/09/2011 04:36 PM, Invisible wrote:

> Hypothesis: The Haskell language isn't hard. Typical Haskell *programs*
> are hard.

Let's test that hypothesis. Consider the following example:

   module Main where

   import System.IO
   import System.Random

   main = do
     x <- randomRIO (1, 100)
     main_loop x

   main_loop x = do
     putStr "Guess: "
     hFlush stdout
     l <- getLine
     let g = read l
     if g == x
       then putStrLn "Correct."
       else do
         if g < x
           then putStrLn "Too low."
           else putStrLn "Too high."
         main_loop x

This is written in Haskell. However, I would expect that anybody 
familiar with computer programming should be able to figure out what 
this does, without knowing anything at all about Haskell. I mean, you 
couldn't /write/ this code, but you can /read/ it and figure out what it 
does. Which would seem to strongly contradict "Haskell is incomprehensible".

...or maybe I'm just delusional from having spent too long with Haskell? 
Maybe it only looks readable to my eyes. What do we say, people?

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