Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell

Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by lsb on Saturday December 19, 2009 @11:12AM (#1004846)

Lisp-like metaprogramming is really tricky, because a lot of the language that you interact with is defined by macros. The Haskell that you see is a thick layer of syntactic sugar over a much smaller Haskell core.

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Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by gruseom on Saturday December 19, 2009 @01:14PM (#1004950)

Lisp-like metaprogramming is really tricky

Whoa. That doesn't match my experience at all. I'd say it's simple and practically effortless (compared to what you'd have to do elsewhere). It would be surprising if it weren't, given that the whole language is organized around code=data.

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Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by scott_s on Saturday December 19, 2009 @06:03PM (#1005352)

I think he meant Lisp-like metaprogramming in Haskell.

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Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by gruseom on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:21PM (#1005531)

Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

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