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

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Haskell allows redefining the Prelude, so what? The language's defaults matter.

explicitness is always better in terms of obvious correctness

So each type should always have its own distinct functions for everything and 8.0 + 4.0 is less correct than 8 + 4? Laughable, get back to your ungeneric C toilet-scrubbing.