Is Haskell a Lisp?

Question

I\'ve been reading The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming by Doets and Eijck 2004. It seems to be a well respected book, but I was struck when it claims that Haske

Answer 1

Haskell is not lisp of course. Everyone has his own understanding what the heck "lisp" is. IMHO lisp is a language where the source code is a valid structure in that same language. Haskell source code is not a valid structure in haskell, hence they have to have a separate syntax (Haskell Template) to manipulate their own source code.

But there's at least one interesting feature in haskell that reminds me of lisp. Its the syntax of function calls: func args1 agr2 arg3. Lisp has EXACTLY the same syntax: (func args1 agr2 arg3). In fact you can include outside parens in haskell too. All other algol family languages introduce parens and commas between function name and arguments.