Haskell might be the strangest community of programmers (in a good way?). There's different styles depending on what grad. school you went to?<p>Can anyone elaborate on "why" this is, and why it isn't true (or is substantially less true) for other languages?
I'd have to disagree with the recommendation for Darcs. I haven't seen any pretty code in Darcs, and some of it is incredibly hairy (the HTTP download module using Curl is pretty horrific).