Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Perl is more learnable than Haskell

If you first language is LISP probably you find easy Haskell and difficult pearl.

Hi, my first programming language is lisp (that is, the language I am most fluent in -- recently Common Lisp, earlier Scheme) and I find Haskell a problematic programming language (this is a fresh experience -- I am writing a syndrome-networks based DSS in Haskell now) because it is not a language. Lisp is a language and Haskell is not, in the sense that lisp allows to write programs that can be read aloud and understood from reading the code. Haskell is a notation that is not a literature by itself, and for Haskell, literate programming, that is, writing more comments than code, is a must; while for lisp it is a rather exotic practice. David