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

"Meta" is just a fancy buzzword.

And so are ``anus'' and ``hax'' by your reasoning.

Haskell was made for the purpose of research, by the way.

Right. ML's original purpose was to implement other languages (i.e. metaprogramming). It is practical. ``Research'' as a purpose is about as vague as you can get; my point still stands.

OOP but with them first-class functions

``Look, ma! I'm spewing baseless opinions on something I know nothing about again!'' --u