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I disagree.

Haskell, like Perl, gives users more freedom to express themselves than other languages.

Unlike Perl, many (most?) Haskell features are oriented towards ease of statically understanding programs without executing them. Haskell culture is much about reasoning power around Haskell programs.

Reasoning about programs is the ability to read code in depth.



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