> Thankfully, in GHC 7.4.1 was introduced the record syntax, which allows naming fields, like this […]

What on Earth? Record syntax has been around since the very first versions of Haskell. This is a surprisingly blatant error to see so near the beginning of this article…

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

Discovering that Template Haskell exists was important to younger me. Its existence means Smart People have concluded that there are notions of abstraction that can't be adequately captured in regular Haskell, which freed me from the persistent feeling that my inability to express something nicely in regular Haskell was due to some inadequacy in myself. I could at last relax, and despise the language.

Also, Haskell? You can take your space leaks and shove them.

So a little bit of syntax is verbose, goes on to invent a whole new syntax for it