Re:Why Clojure? (2018)
by marcosdumay on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:40PM
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I program in Haskell much more than in any Lisp.
But AFAIK, GHCi doesn't have any state saving functionality (I don't think the dev environment is even integrated enough for any to work), and the little code edition available is entire function only. The Haskell REPL is entirely oriented into the "you write the code on the editor -> you evaluate it on the REPL" way (again, AFAIK, the GHCi manual is huge).
That said, yes, it's a really seamless cycle of you write your code on the editor -> you evaluate it on the REPL, and yes, Haskell requires doing that very little, most problems stop at the type checker. Haskell does really not afford interactive programming, but I wouldn't classify that as a problem.
But AFAIK, GHCi doesn't have any state saving functionality (I don't think the dev environment is even integrated enough for any to work), and the little code edition available is entire function only. The Haskell REPL is entirely oriented into the "you write the code on the editor -> you evaluate it on the REPL" way (again, AFAIK, the GHCi manual is huge).
That said, yes, it's a really seamless cycle of you write your code on the editor -> you evaluate it on the REPL, and yes, Haskell requires doing that very little, most problems stop at the type checker. Haskell does really not afford interactive programming, but I wouldn't classify that as a problem.