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Re:Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? by ue_ on Sunday November 27, 2016 @06:32AM (#13048703)
The strange syntax of Haskell is what's turning me off from learning it. With Lisp, the syntax was strange still, sure, but it wasn't confusing, it made sense. I feel like I can't even get in to reading Haskell or even OCaml.

However if Haskell had macros (like Perl 6's or even Lisp's), I'd jump ship from Lisp quite quickly. It's a mature language with the libraries I want.

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Re:Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? by dllthomas on Sunday November 27, 2016 @06:51PM (#13052375)
> if Haskell had macros

What are you wanting that's missing from Template Haskell?

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Re:Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? by tome on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:28AM (#13054353)
Or even lazy evaluation.
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Re:Which Language Uses the Most Sounds? by dllthomas on Monday November 28, 2016 @11:02PM (#13060681)
I think implementing lazy evaluation is a common use case of macros in languages that don't support it otherwise, but there are plenty of other uses (some questionable on balance, but all with their upsides).
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