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Coalton is an efficient, statically typed Lisp with ideas from Haskell and OCaml | Hacker News

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  1. Coalton is presented as a statically typed Lisp for Common Lisp users, blending functional programming ideas with the CL ecosystem.

  2. A Hacker News comment said it can be learned separately from Common Lisp and mixed with existing CL code through the REPL.

  3. Its type system supports domain-specific types and algebraic data types, making it useful for stronger modeling and safer code.

  4. Because documentation is sparse, the comment recommends studying Haskell, OCaml, or F# examples as a guide.

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