Andrew Coppin
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Edtai/projects/ALP//newsletter/dec07/content/...
"Haskell is the undisputed flagship of the FP community."
Er... really?
It depends on how you define the "FP community", of course. The author counts participation at ICFP, so he probably has an academic slant.
I thought Lisp and Erlang were both infinitely more popular and better known.
Certainly not infinitely. Lisp isn't entirely functional, and while Erlang is an industrial success story, I think Haskell is seeing a wider range of application.
[I actually heard a number of people tell me that learning LISP would change my life forever because LISP has something called "macros".
The close ties between data and code in Lisp gives some nice opportunities for your program to e.g. manipulate itself. For e.g. genetic programming. I think macros are used for bottom-up design (i.e. building EDSLs), where you would use higher-order functions in Haskell. (I don't really have a lot of Lisp experience, I'd be interested to hear if other people agree or not) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants