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nicoburns on Oct 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Is Good About Haskell?

There's no reason why it should be more familiar. But it is more familiar to the huge number of developers who are used to ALGOL/C family languages.

atroche on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

The word “should” can also be “used to indicate what is probable” (according to the OED). I think that's the way GP intended to use it. As in, "why is it probable that the syntax is more familiar?"

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