Re: Should I learn LISP or Haskell?

On 12 d=E9c, 12:11, hu47121+nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Hannah
Schroeter) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Arnaud Dagnelies  <arnaud.dagnel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >I would be interested in learning one of these languages a bit
> >further. Simply out of curiosity, to improve my knowledge of
> >functional languages. Which one would you suggest?
>
> Depends on what you want to focus on learning.
>
> Metaprogramming? An object orientation system that's quite different
> in a refre****ng way from the mainstream stuff you see in Java/C++/...?
> Dynamic features? That'd suggest Common Lisp (perhaps together with an
> AMOP implementation, which most CL implementations include).
>
> Being pure functional? A modern, sound statical type system? Interesting
> mathematical properties? And still, being practically useful? That'd
> suggest Haskell.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Hannah.

Thanks for the input ...i'll give a first shoot at LISP then.