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I've not done extensive development in any lisp, so I'm not able to make a robust comparison. There are clearly ways in which Haskell leads to more productivity (static typing when sufficiently expressive is a tremendous win), and some ways in which LISP has an advantage. It sounds plausible to me that it's a wash; something other than a wash is marginally more likely, but I'm not confident about which direction it would go.



Makes sense. I think that mirrors my view, mostly. I have lately begun to fall on the side of lisp more so than haskel. Sadly, I can not really give a good reasoning as to why.

I can say that finally going through SICP has been borderline mind blowing. It is hilarious/sad/crazy to see how many hot topics today were covered in a bloody introduction textbook from the 90s.


On a side note, this may be worth looking at: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~mainland/2013/05/31/type-safe-run...




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