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Haskell just looks horrible when set in ASCII at all; where did they come up with \ for lambda? It would definitely benefit aesthetically from at least more Greek use.


It's two thirds of a lowercase lambda: λ vs \


I know, but it's too subtle and makes the code look bizarre. Well, if there were lambdas everywhere, I'm not sure it would look much better...code would begin to feel more like a boring POPL paper.




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