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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Lisp

Unityped mess.

Scheme

A type of Lisp, see above.

Thus, there aren't even any alternatives to Haskell. Idris is perhaps the only hope right now. But you know you need to check'em.

ML

Ancient, half-assed shit. Not even purely functional.

Clean

Dead and abandoned.