By which I mean that Perl starts from C-style syntax and then allows a lot more flexibility and convenience.
Haskell feels like it does a similar dance with Lisp. It’s possible to write Haskell expressions in a very Lispish way, by avoiding all the syntactical conveniences like $ or backtick-infixing (which still seems very weird to me, but I can see the reason for it) which make it such an expressive language.
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