Hello Simon, Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 2:18:25 PM, you wrote:
How can one answer the question--why choose Haskell over Scheme?
1. static typing with type inference - imho, must-be for production code development. as many haskellers said, once compiler accept your program, you may be 95% sure that it contains no bugs. just try it! 2. lazy evaluation - reduces complexity of language. in particular, all control structures are usual functions while in scheme they are macros 3. great, terse syntax. actually, the best syntax among several dozens of languages i know 4. type classes machinery, together with type inference, means that code for dealing with complex data types (say, serialization) is generated on the fly and compiled right down to machine code -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com