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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Why don't people like lisp?
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:52:33 +0100
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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.