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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Blub-fighter-diary:

Day1:Blub programmers don't see the benefit of writing less code, they're just code monkeys paid by the line. Who cares if all the programs you runs are made in Blub, thats just a conspiracy by Blub architects. They purposefully made Blub so efficient and fast so everyone chooses blub.
Day2:I wish that Blub would disappear, its so inelegant and obtuse compared to my language. It doesn't even have autism-express-stack-apply-in-reverse, because this is impossible to implement in there.
Of course i use autism-express-stack-apply-in-reverse everyday, thats my favorite function.
Day3:What do you mean "wrote any useful program"? i'm computer scientist not a code monkey.,I develop the tools and algorithms, so I essentially contribute more.
Day4:I submitted a proposal to add autism-express-stack-apply-in-reverse into Blub with minimal modifications to the Blub core , but they didn't like it. Its so kawaii and they didn't like it, monsters. How the world can be so cruel? I hope it garbage collects itself.