I think of programming in Haskell as being more about being able to choose a level of abstraction that makes sense for the situation. The more abstract code is

I think of programming in Haskell as being more about being able to choose a level of abstraction that makes sense for the situation. The more abstract code is great when it works well, and when it falters I can easily drop down to something more concrete, or even to C, and still have most of my code benefit from that higher level of thinking.