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by nezumi 4610 days ago
Since when was Haskell "a member of the Lisp family"?
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hajile 4610 days ago
They're probably saying that because haskell was originally implemented in lisp and the optional parenthesis make it look a lot more lispish (though I still wouldn't call it a true lisp)
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lispm 4610 days ago
I have a C compiler on my Lisp Machine. C uses curly braces. Does that make C a member of the 'Lisp family'.

There was a Haskell compiler written in Lisp - Yale Haskell - others were and are not written in Lisp.

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