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by mtraven 2140 days ago
> One difference in philosophy of Lisp and Haskell is that the latter makes liberal use of many tiny functions that do one single task. This is known as composability, or the UNIX philosophy.

Have you ever looked at a Unix man page?

And while Common Lisp has some functions that might be swiss army knives of functionality, that is not "the philosophy of Lisp", it's a particular style. Clojure and Scheme are just as much Lisp as CL, and as other people have noted, their style is very similar to Haskell.