title: Lisp or Haskell for web application development
body: <p>I'm considering to learn a functional programming language. I decided to build a medium-sized web application. </p>
  
  <p>I narrowed down the choices to Haskell and Common Lisp. </p>
  
  <p>Web application needs to interface to some relational database (MySQL, Firebird or Postgres) and has to run on Linux. Obviously, it has to interface well with web server software. I have no experience with functional languages, my expertize is C, C++, PHP and JavaScript.</p>
  
  <p>Which one is preferred for this use and why?</p>
  
  <p><em>I'm not sure whether this question should be marked subjective? It really is not "which language is better", but rather "which is more suited for this particular task"</em></p>