That's hardly a fair comparison, the equivalent Haskell to the Clojure example is fairly similar, though my Haskell is a bit rusty at this point. sum = 1 + 2

That's hardly a fair comparison, the equivalent Haskell to the Clojure example is fairly similar, though my Haskell is a bit rusty at this point. sum = 1 + 2 greet name = "Hello " ++ name usercount = 34 I'm not 100% sure what the Haskell example is trying to accomplish though.