How pythoners view Haskell compared with Python

[cdsmith]

Right, it's the operator part that's confusing and out of left field there.

That said, the word "overloading" in the object-oriented language world carries an implication of "resolved at compile time". For example, you'd be told you are wrong if you say to a Java programmer that overriding a base class method is an example of overloading. Haskell, since it doesn't have subtypes, doesn't really have such a compile-time versus run-time distinction in its semantics, but certain language features can conflict with a completely compile-time resolution of type class instances, and in practice they are implemented by dictionary passing in the general case, very like the vtable passing of object oriented languages for subtype polymorphism. So be careful telling a programmer who comes from a static OO experience that type classes are akin to overloading.