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by m00natic 2665 days ago
So where's Haskell's advanced object system or the restart/condition system that Common Lisp has? Even its performance is hardly on par with CL for all the flexibility of the latter.
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I'm not saying it has everything that Common Lisp has - it's different.
the world needs less objects, you know the koan `objects or closures: yes`
> So where's Haskell's advanced object system

Doesn't need one.

> restart/condition system that Common Lisp has

Utility is questionable, but you could build one in the continuation monad.