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Which parts of the syntax are like Haskell? As far as I can tell, the syntax for calling functions is similar to Haskell, but that's about it. Maybe some of the operators are vaguely like Haskell's, except they're baked into the language instead of being definable by the user.

The vast majority of the syntax seems based on CoffeeScript.

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LiveScript has many features over CoffeeScript that may not exactly be as in Haskell, but are inspired by it. You can define curried functions, use partially applied operators (addTwo = (+ 2)), use operators as functions (sum = fold1 (+)), use infix functions, ("hi" `startsWith` 'h'), compose functions (h = f . g), have proper list comprehensions, and its standard library, prelude.ls, is based off of Haskell's Prelude module (inclusion is optional though if you want to use underscore.js or something else). For more information check out http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/blog/functional-programming...

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