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> Does it make sense to have to learn Haskell and a Haskell framework just to understand Clojure?

I have a strong feeling that once you understand either Haskell or Clojure, it will be a breeze to learn other.

My point was to get framework for functional programming that deals with a lot of I/O and side-effects and see docs for real-life examples of usage.

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In my personal experience having learned Clojure before diving deeply into Haskell, it helps but there is long path between them still. Hs types are incredible and completely missing in Clj.

> I have a strong feeling that once you understand either Haskell or Clojure, it will be a breeze to learn other.

Does Clojure use lazy evaluation?

It also isn't statically typed.

Not everywhere, but most of the sequence functions like map/filter return lazy sequences.

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