From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2006-07-10T06:31:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python? "Francis Cianfrocca" writes: > On 7/9/06, Daniel Martin wrote: >> >> >> I'm just curious; where does Haskell fit in this? I think in this >> taxonomy it might fall under "lisp" because of the broad "functional" >> language category, but I've found that doing serious stuff in Haskell >> stretches my mind more than the bits of common lisp I've learned (but >> that's probably because I have never gotten heavily into CL macros). > > Haskell is a strict, lazy functional language (and pretty close to the > state-of-the-art in computer languages, IMHO). As such it neatly fits the > Lisp category. Except just about all Lisps are dynamically-typed, not lazy and not side-effect free either... Haskell would make a good addition to the taxonomy on itself. -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org