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nine_kyesterday at 9:36 PM0 repliesview on HN

Even as simple as

  fac 1 = 1
  fac n = n * (fac (n - 1))
which is a working Haskell implementation?

I mean, in Scheme it is longer to write. I enjoy Lisps and use Emacs for everything, but Haskell can be as terse, or even more terse. (Which is not always a good thing.)