For anyone curious about the difference between the two: Hughes' pretty printer works really well for pretty-printing Haskell code, but Wadler's is more flexibl

For anyone curious about the difference between the two: Hughes' pretty printer works really well for pretty-printing Haskell code, but Wadler's is more flexible for pretty-printing C-style languages where there is a dedented closing brace at the end of scopes. It is 100% true that Hughes' paper is a better introduction to the idea of having algebraic document combinators. One can skim Hughes' and then feel at ease using a library that implements Wadler's printer - the bigger differences between the two libraries are tucked away in the layout algorithms and the APIs are similar.