Ask HN: Brevity in Haskell versus Common Lisp

I'm a CL developer, not a Haskell developer. But, in the interest of the Great Northern Wars [1], i need to ask HN:

+++ Is there any example out there on the web of a code made significantly briefer in Haskell (versus Clojure/Common Lisp/Arc/Racket/Scheme), while still being reasonably understandable? +++

I know this question cannot have a definite answer[2], so feel free to do not-so-serious answers as well.

[1] Great Northern Wars: See reference picture:

http://lemonodor.com/images/functional-programming-is-beautiful-s.jpg

Comic author: Conrad Barsky, MD.

[2] I found this nice, fun comparison of the "fake" quicksort that is typically used to show how brief can Haskell code be. The author proceeds to write the same algorithm under Common Lisp with good results:

http://blog.thezerobit.com/2012/09/01/beautiful-quicksort-in-common-lisp.html

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lispm 9y ago ↗

Just look at the sources of an editor written in Lisp (GNU Emacs and others) and Yi (in Haskell - https://github.com/yi-editor/yi ).

Ask yourself which code you like more...

kazinator 9y ago ↗

Ever heard of Rosetta Code?

http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

This is a Wiki site whose pages list numerous small programming tasks, each of which is solved in numerous programming languages, ranging from mainstream ones to "esolangs".