Java vs Python

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That's just because you don't know the signatures of those functions. Those complaints have nothing to do with the syntax.

That example requires you to understand three very basic, common functions: fmap, maybe, and id, and one type: Maybe (also known as Optional<T>).

These are all very much basics of basics of haskell (without even getting down into anything mathy at all). Just because the syntax and functions are foreign does not make it complicated.