> One difference in philosophy of Lisp (e.g. Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp) and Haskell is that the latter makes liberal use of many tiny functions that do one single

> One difference in philosophy of Lisp (e.g. Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp) and Haskell is that the latter makes liberal use of many tiny functions that do one single task. This is known as composability, or the UNIX philosophy. This honestly seems like a misunderstanding which ignores how many POSIX commands actually accept commands. The uni philosophy doesn’t mean literally one thing, but rather one task; sometimes the task will have different parameters and that’s OK, but we’re not going to have `ls` takeout the trash.