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From: "Norman Ramsey"
http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/avg.html
I wonder how Haskell compares in this regard.
I loved Graham's characterization of the hierarchy of power in programming languages:
- Languages less powerful than the one you understand look impoverished - Languages more powerful than the one you understand look weird
Same for me; although you should not fall into the trap of reversing it, ie if the language looks weird is is more powerful!
When I compare Lisp and Haskell, the big question in my mind is this: is lazy evaluation sufficient to make up for the lack of macros?
Don't you get dynamic scoping as well with macros?
I would love to hear from a real Lisp macro hacker who has also done lazy functional progrmaming.
Norman
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