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Haskell was created to be beautiful. Clojure was created to be practical, with plenty of ugly pragmatism thrown in. If there's an argument over beauty, it sho

by daxfohl 11y ago

Haskell was created to be beautiful. Clojure was created to be practical, with plenty of ugly pragmatism thrown in. If there's an argument over beauty, it should be Haskell vs Lisp (vs Prolog, vs Forth, and probably vs assembly).

wetmore 11y ago
> Haskell was created to be beautiful. Clojure was created to be practical Haskell was created to unify research in programming language theory under a common language, not to be beautiful.