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I wonder what pg thinks about Haskell vis-a-vis Lisp and his own Arc.

• mnemonicsloth 17y ago
  Haskell, for example, seems to me a language that's designed more to write papers about than to hack in. I get the impression that using it would feel like reading a novel written by a literary critic. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/186#comment-1351 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/186#comment-1351 Borges was a literary critic. He didn't do novels, but his short works are mind-stretching.
  • andrewcooke 17y ago
    borges was borges. a programming language suitable for a lone genius isn't that useful.
    • tumult 17y ago
      it's useful for the genius!
  • nandemo 17y ago
    So was Nabokov. The intended meaning is of course "a novel written by a literary critic that is not primarily a writer" but that's a mouthful, isn't it?
  • Zak 17y ago
    After using Haskell for a while, that seems to be partially true. It also seems to me that Haskell is especially well-suited to certain kinds of problems. For example, writing parsers with Parsec is very easy. That may be primarily due to the built-in syntax for monads, which would make that advantage fairly easy to duplicate in Lisp.