Functional programming beyond Haskell

We have all learned functional programming in Haskell, but there are more functional languages like Lisp, Scheme, ML, and Clean.

Why should we even bother to look further than Haskell?

- You want your programs to run faster.
- Monads drive you mad (what are they anyway? warm fuzzy things?).
- You need objects.
- You sometimes need a more powerful module system.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/pub/Stc/BeyondFunctionalProgrammingInHaskell:AnIntroductionToOCaml/ocaml.pdf

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My what? Google-fu? This coming from a person who thinks that SML functors are part of the Haskell Language? Truly retarded, I should stop reading your post now. But I'll read one more piece.

By your assumption I don't care bout the actual type of foo

No, by my assumption you don't need to call a function whose name depends on that type. Whether or not you need to care about its type depends on the concrete algorithm. For example, Oleg Kiselyov has a beautiful piece on generic zippers where he does not give a single flying fuck about the type of the thing he's zipping on - he only needs to have its traversal function. But yeah, if you want to prepend stuff to foo, you probably need to know its type - but you shouldn't have to use some shitty ungeneric function just to find the damn length of it. The programmer has been spared a bit of free time and a modicum of frustration, thank God!

I'm tired of your stupidity now and will not read any further.