Re: Python vs Lisp: was RE: how to pass the name of a variable as argument?

On 5/14/08, Dave <dfeustel <at> mindspring.com> wrote:

> Would using Haskell for the top level be feasible?

That seems interesting, mostly, from my point of view, because
Haskell has built-in pattern matching. I don't know anything about
it, but it seems likely it is more powerful than Maxima's pattern
matching.

If there were an implementation of Haskell in Lisp, it would
theoretically be straightforward to try it -- just launch Maxima
and load Haskell into the image and somehow call a Maxima
function from Haskell ... If you have time to try it,
I would be interested to hear how it turns out.

best

Robert Dodier