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Mark Engelberg  
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 More options Jul 19 2010, 10:20 pm
From: Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:20:13 -0700
Local: Mon, Jul 19 2010 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: Haskell?

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jared <tri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious; for the people with Haskell experience why did you
> decide to use Clojure? I am asking this because Haskell and Clojure
> seem to solve similar types of problems. When would you want to use
> Haskell instead of Clojure and visa-versa?

I think stateful things are too hard to do in Haskell, and they are an
important part of most real-world programs.  Clojure's blend of
persistent data structures with a variety of reference-type objects
that can contain them feels much more pragmatic to me.  Also, I'm just
happier working in a dynamically-typed language.

As a side note, years ago, I wanted to write something in Haskell that
worked like Clojure's memoize (which is implemented in a half-dozen or
so lines of code in Clojure's core), and asked about it on the Haskell
mailing list.  I was pointed to a PhD dissertation on the topic of how
to write memoize in Haskell.  All I could think was, "Do I really want
to be using a language where memoize is a PhD-level topic?"


 
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