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jdh30, the author of both comments, is a massive OCaml fanboy and Haskell hater. I've seen him try to take Haskell performance numbers and interpret them using the wrong units to make them look worse. I'd take anything that he says about Haskell with a big, big grain of salt!

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The comments I've just read of his, are at least, all heavily referenced.

After spending nearly a decade thinking about haskell, everything here rings very true.

It's a language whose sales pitch begins by assuming you are using the language: here are all these solutions to problems you now have.

Laziness is the wrong default; it's a catastrophe for writing programs. It requires the whole category-theoretic infrastructure of haskell to solve, and then, imparts insurmountable complexity on writing anything real world.

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