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sklogic on Dec 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A difference between Haskell and Common Lisp

The main difference is: it is trivial to build an efficient Haskell implementation on top of Common Lisp, keeping interoperability with the rest of the system. And it is impossible to do it the other way around, to build a Lisp on top of Haskell.

ZenoArrow on Dec 21, 2015 [–]

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_Lisp

sklogic on Dec 21, 2015 | [–]

I'm talking about an efficient implementation with a full interoperability with the host. Interpreters and standalone compilers do not count.

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