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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jared <tri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am curious; for the people with Haskell experience why did you decide to use Clojure? I am asking this because Haskell and Clojure seem to solve similar types of problems. When would you want to use Haskell instead of Clojure and visa-versa?

[Mark Engelberg replies]

I think stateful things are too hard to do in Haskell, and they are an important part of most real-world programs. Clojure's blend of persistent data structures with a variety of reference-type objects that can contain them feels much more pragmatic to me. Also, I'm just happier working in a dynamically-typed language.

As a side note, years ago, I wanted to write something in Haskell that worked like Clojure's memoize (which is implemented in a half-dozen or so lines of code in Clojure's core), and asked about it on the Haskell mailing list. I was pointed to a PhD dissertation on the topic of how to write memoize in Haskell. All I could think was,

"Do I really want to be using a language where memoize is a PhD-level topic?" "