Blog articles/Comparisons

Comparisons to other languages

Ruby

• Ruby vs Haskell: choose what works
• Haskell: open secret in Ruby land
• Haskell Eye for the Ruby Guy
• Monads in Ruby
  • Part 1: Identity
  • Part 1.5: Identity
• RushCheck, a lightweight random testing tool for Ruby similar to QuickCheck
• part 1
• zip and transpose
• Pattern matching in Ruby

Erlang

• Small comparison of Erlang's syntactic difficulties

Ada

• Describing Haskell to an Ada programmer

Java

• More Haskell in Java 7 or 8?
• Type classes in Java
• Closures and bottom for Java
• An infinite list in Java
• Maybe monad in Java

Perl 6

• Perl 6

Eiffel

• The type system of ECMA Eiffel (modelled in Haskell)

Javascript

• foldr and foldl in JavaScript

C

• The functional C programmer

C#

• The New Lambda Expressions Feature in C# 3.0
• Immutability, Purity, and Referential Transparency in C#
• Haskell for C# 3 Programmers
• Null pointers vs None vs Maybe

Scala

• Haskell, CAL and Scala
• Type classes
• Generics for type-safe persistence

CAL

• Haskell code/Java UI

Python

• Haskell versus Python
• Using Haskell in Python: haskellembed
• Understanding Monads Via Python List Comprehensions

Scheme

• Floating point in ElSchemo (a scheme written in Haskell)
• Haskell versus Scheme

Forth

• Forth as a Haskell DSL

Factor

• Haskell-style parser combinators in Factor: s-expression reader

Lisp

• Writing lisp in Haskell
• Haskell like data structures in Common Lisp

Lua

• Lazy streams for Lua

Qi

• Foldl and Foldr
• SKI in Qi's type system