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Re:A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015) by layoutIfNeeded on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:30PM (#24031945)
Yeah, you can emulate laziness at the library level with iterators, coroutines and whatnot, but it always comes with a certain API friction (some readers might be familiar with the “colored functions” analogy [1]) compared to Haskell’s approach that takes laziness to the extreme.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

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Re:A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (2015) by anchpop on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:47PM (#24032460)
I was really hoping that article was going to start talking about effect systems. They're so cool! They make it possible to have many different function colors without it being a huge chore. They can be thought of as a more-ergonomic generalization of monads.
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