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Discussion on: What Instrument is Your Programming Language?

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Idan Arye

Haskell is not an instrument, because playing music would be a side-effect.

Perl is bagpipes, because you need a Scottish-level beard to use it.

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Oliver Hechtl

Haskell is a modular synthetizer. You'll never fully understand it.

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Ryan Palo

I agree, Haskell is a perfect sine wave that doesn't worry about whether it's getting output as sound or not. :)