Honest question: why is Haskell not a lisp / built on s-expressions?

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  • hackett

    WIP implementation of a Haskell-like Lisp in Racket

  • This doesn't really answer your question but you may be interested in checking out https://lexi-lambda.github.io/hackett/ by u/lexilambda.

  • coalton

    Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.

  • There’s Coalton: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton which is more of a DSL in Common Lisp, impressive though, nonetheless.

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  • Carp

    A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

  • And my personal favorite: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp

  • pie

    The Pie language, which accompanies The Little Typer by Friedman and Christiansen (by the-little-typer)

  • Yep, this is one possibility - an example is the language pie from the book The Little Typer. But my claim was not that there are no expressions for types, just that declarations aren't expressions.

  • structured-haskell-mode

    Structured editing minor mode for Haskell in Emacs

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