This document discusses the benefits of using HAML over ERB for markup templating in Ruby on Rails applications. It begins by showing an example of converting ERB code to equivalent HAML code in 3 steps to demonstrate HAML's cleaner syntax. It then lists some of HAML's main ideas like being beautiful, clean and sensible. It also explains HAML's rules of indentation. The document notes that HAML code is typically smaller than equivalent ERB. Potential performance and retraining issues with HAML are also briefly mentioned. Overall, the document argues that HAML provides a more intuitive and readable approach to markup templating compared to ERB.