Functional programming beyond Haskell

We have all learned functional programming in Haskell, but there are more functional languages like Lisp, Scheme, ML, and Clean.

Why should we even bother to look further than Haskell?

- You want your programs to run faster.
- Monads drive you mad (what are they anyway? warm fuzzy things?).
- You need objects.
- You sometimes need a more powerful module system.

http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/pub/Stc/BeyondFunctionalProgrammingInHaskell:AnIntroductionToOCaml/ocaml.pdf

>>74,76
It really fucking depends man. Wasting memory is wasting cache -> wasting time. GHC can be intelligent about when to compute vs. when to memoize, but OCaml can be intelligent about when to defer/cache computation. Neither seem to do a super great job of these things. You don't want the lazy default if you care about latency.

>>78
Lazy vs. eager doesn't divide functional and imperative programming. What are you smoking?

>>80
Can't argue with this, even the OCaml jab. Not sure why you would even tolerate a broken numeric tower, but whatever floats your boat.