[Haskell-cafe] Comparison with Clean?

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:11:37AM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone here familiar with the Clean programming language?
> 
> http://www.cs.ru.nl/~clean/
> 
> It looks /very/ similar to Haskell, both in functionality and syntax.
> 
> I would be grateful for any sort of comparison. I'm trying to decide 
> which language I should try to learn.

Take a look at the dissertation of Matthew Naylor, the author of hacle,
a Haskell to Clean translator. It contains a detailed comparison of
similarities and differences.

In the past there were many discussions about differences in
convenience, performance. You should be able to find them searching the
web and newsgroup articles.

Personally, I recommend starting with Haskell (but of course I am
biased ;) but also taking a look at Clean. It has some nice features,
like uniqueness typing, built-in support for dynamics (AFAIK only on
windows), IDE, a proof assistant, etc.

Best regards
Tomasz