Haskell is an incredibly simple language with only a few core constructions. You have ADTs/pattern matching and lambda abstraction/application and that's basically it. Everything else in the standard language is (usually straightforward) syntactic sugar around those two concepts. This includes the vast majority of data structures, monads, etc. All the other things that people use exist as (individually) extremely simple extensions that you can learn in isolation in a few minutes.
Haskell is possibly the least over-engineered language out there; it's almost as if laziness (no pun intended) was a guiding principle when building the language.
Ocaml is more complicated, but I'd still consider it vasty simpler than C++ or Java (as long as you ignore ocaml's object layer).
Haskell is possibly the least over-engineered language out there; it's almost as if laziness (no pun intended) was a guiding principle when building the language.
Ocaml is more complicated, but I'd still consider it vasty simpler than C++ or Java (as long as you ignore ocaml's object layer).