Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus Lisp
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.
I have many years of experience designing and implementing commercial software in lisp and I strongly agree with the second part of this sentence. However, my more recent experience with Haskell makes me doubt very much the first part. Haskell's powerful type system hasn't in the least cramped my style and lazy evaluation eliminates 99% of the need for macros in lisp. (The other 1% is syntactic sugar of doubtful utility.) Since Haskell supports recursive polymorphic types it can easily handle all of the metaprogramming problems where lisp first made its mark. I don't see any reason to continue to use lisp. ps. This thread was on Haskell-cafe which seems more appropriate, so I'm bringing it back. -------------------------------- David F. Place mailto:d@vidplace.com
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
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