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"A) It's kind of presumptuous to show up in an esoteric lisp community and ask them to adopt C-style comments for your sake."

haskell isn't a lisp.

I'm not sure whether to make the haskell strongly-typed joke or the functional programming snob joke :)

Just let lazy evaluation deal with the problem.

I read "We think for a while before typing" to be a snide remark as in, "Think about your feature request for awhile before typing it up."

A) Agree, especially since we have syntax highlighting.

B) Agree. I have a better excuse: "not everyone uses Qwerty". In my keyboard, for instance "-" is very accessible, and "/" a tiny bit less so.