Dan Piponi wrote:
I suspect that most of the complaints about line noise stem
from this - to beginners Haskell expressions just look like sequences
of identifiers with no apparent grammar to "bind" them together.

This was the exact complaint that some people voiced, yes. (The (.) and ($) operators just compound the problem.)

Somebody else then came to my rescue and pointed out that "everybody says Lisp is unreadable because it has too many brackets - despite the fact that those brackets theoretically make parsing utterly trivial". ;-)

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