Hi,
I've been extolling Haskell at work, and one of my bosses asked me the
following two questions.
1) How does functional programming relate to LISP?
2) What does Haskell offer that LISP does not?
My problem is that (blush) I don't speak LISP at all, except just
enough to occasionally modify emacs. I come to Haskell from C and
FORTRAN. While I feel confident about listing the advantages of
Haskell, e.g., strong typing, static typing, lazy evaluation, etc., I
can't comfortably say which of these LISP doesn't have because
(blushing again) I don't know. Can anyone give me a few LISP
vs. Haskell points? (Any advantages that LISP has over Haskell are
welcome too.)
Thanks.
David M. Goblirsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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