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Why do I prefer Clojure to Haskell?

Eric Normand

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Eric Normand shares his perspective on the philosophical and engineering differences between Clojure and Haskell.

I prefer Clojure to Haskell. It's probably mostly due to accidents of history: getting in Lisp at an earlier age, spending more time with Lisp, and only having one Haskell job. But I do have some philosophical differences with the Haskell philosophy as it relates to Haskell as an engineering tool. In this episode, I go over four of them, and try to relate them with anecdotes.

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What people say. Recommended as an educated and pragmatic comparison between Clojure and Haskell from an experienced functional programmer.

u/AlfonzoKaizerKokin r/Clojure • Recommends

On “former/current haskellers, what was the point for you that led you to leave haskell for clojure? Is so, why?”

I’ve done only a little bit of Haskell, so I’m not really qualified to say. But Eric Normand has a pretty interesting perspective on it: link to this video
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u/joinrin r/Clojure • Recommends

On “Clojure for someone who's only seen statically typed languages?”

IMO educated take by Eric Normand, albeit speaking from Haskell experience link to this video I think F# is probably on the same level of "pragmatic first" as Clojure, instead of being stuck in type theory love. Would love to mix F# and clojure freely (can do it on the CLR with clojureclr).
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u/fredoverflowin r/Clojure • Mentions

On “Haskell?”

Why does Eric Normand prefer Clojure to Haskell?
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