Re: Why don't people like lisp?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:11:35 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
>

In Haskell, max always
takes two args of an ordered type, and maximum takes a list arg.
maximum [2] gives 2 but maximum [] throws an empty list exception.
maximum just applies max repeatedly, like using reduce in Lisp.

>
Seems unnecessary to have two functions when one will do.

Haskell is a typed language so the two functions are quite different,
though the list version can be trivially defined from the binary
function.

--
Ben.