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hvs on Jan 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Lisp is a Big Hack (And Haskell is Doomed to S...

I think that without macros, any language claiming to "replace lisp" is only doing so superficially.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I don't think the Haskell designers are claiming that it "replaces lisp," just that this blog entry does.

jsmcgd on Jan 3, 2011 [–]

I used to think so too until I learnt about Haskell's very lazy evaluation. It's worth reading up.

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