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abhaya

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Registered: 2010-07-10

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Racket/PLT-Scheme vs Haskell ...

This is pretty subjective, but I've considered looking into Racket and/or Haskell, both are functional languages, both have first class continuations, co-routines and closures (The C's), although haskell requires monads to do this, but all the same - could anyone give me insight into which you focus on, and why (if you do any of these).

I'm currently leaning towards Racket, however.

skottish

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Re: Racket/PLT-Scheme vs Haskell ...

I don't know anything about Racket at all, but assuming that you're using Arch, Haskell is supremely well supported here. If ease of package management is important to you, it's worth considering Haskell.

lamnk

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Re: Racket/PLT-Scheme vs Haskell ...

I have absolutely no experience with both, but begin to read the SICP book, so my decision goes to Racket, as it's what the book recommends

Bralkein

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Registered: 2004-10-26

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Re: Racket/PLT-Scheme vs Haskell ...

It seems to me that Haskell has quite a lot of buzz around it at the moment so I think that makes it quite attractive. The popularity of a language is important because it affects the quality and availability of libs, editor support and many other things besides. I know it kind of goes against certain geek instincts to go with the popular pick but alas there are certain benefits...

...though if you follow that to its extreme you might end up using C#/.Net. Oh well, you're the judge

valium97582

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Registered: 2010-06-19

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Re: Racket/PLT-Scheme vs Haskell ...

Racket! It is ultra-flexible, but it does not have a great community, but it has a splendid documentations and is mostly compatible with scheme, and DrRacket just wins them all!

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