[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell versus Lisp

[Greg Buchholz]

Bill Wood wrote:
> 
> As to utility, quite the contrary, I think.  Offhand I can think of the
> screamer package for Common Lisp, which provides non-deterministic
> mechanisms for use in backtracking applications.  For a while in the
> 80's there was practically a cottage industry implementing various
> flavors of Prolog and other Logic Programming languages in Lisp; one
> notable example was LogLisp.

    I think the goal was to present an application where Lisp macros
made for a more succinct program than the equivalent Haskell version. 

    http://www.google.com/search?&q=backtracking+monad


Greg Buchholz