17 Sep
2005
17 Sep
'05
7:03 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:56:10PM -0400, David F. Place wrote:
On Sep 16, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
Haskell's safety and consistency can get in the way, while Lisp's freedom can be quite unsafe and inconsistent.
and lazy evaluation eliminates 99% of the need for macros in lisp.
I wrote:
supposedly unavailable in other languages. Surprisingly, most of these things were equally easy to do with higher-order functions and closures in Haskell.
... and laziness of course, and some other features too. Did I say "equally easy"? It is often easier. Creating your own control structures in Haskell is a pure pleasure. Best regards Tomasz