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As I was reading some of the illustrations, I began to wonder why anyone would prefer to use Lisp instead of Haskell. Can anyone mention a few advantages? Mostl
by cassowary 10y ago
As I was reading some of the illustrations, I began to wonder why anyone would prefer to use Lisp instead of Haskell. Can anyone mention a few advantages? Mostly, I find Haskell attractive because of the fantastic type system which allows me to write code that will fail when I'm writing or changing code. But I worry that I'm overlooking something because I can't understand why some people prefer Lisp.
- sodawater 10y agoExploratory Programming. When solving a problem, I don't always know what adt would work the best apriori. So being forced to tie myself down with "this is an X" is restrictive.
- keymone 10y agoEver since i learned lisp i feel very annoyed by languages having so much syntax. Just yesterday i was looking at tiny piece of Haskell code and it gave me headaches. Once you realize how much more productive you can be without cognitive load of juggling dozens of syntactic constructs in your head - it's hard to go back. and then you have benefits of homoiconicity on top of that.
- ue_ 10y agoI personally find macros and metaprogramminv nicer and more powerful than Template Haskell. I like the regularity of all the syntax too.