Post #1825032
2026-04-30 09:45 UTC
Why Joe prefers a Lisp dialect over Haskell as his default programming language.
Scheme (and Lisp in general) might lack Haskell’s innovations and purity, favoring a minimalistic flexibility instead, but it mixes practicality with functional beauty in a way that makes it a functional language for human beings.
https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html
#lisp #scheme #haskell
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@gre@oldbytes.space 2026-06-01 09:07
@amoroso@oldbytes.space R5RS Scheme is still my tool of choice when I need to figure-out how to approach solving a problem. I guess I don't really use any features added after R4RS, though.