Ask HN: Size and Syntactical Complexity of Haskell and CLisp

Hello all. I am currently learning a bit of CLisp and Haskell. I am used (somewhat) to relatively small languages like C or (less small) Python with libraries to handle the rest and I like that.

My first dip into Lisp involved seeing things such as with-open-file and with-standard-io-syntax. Haskell on the other hand appears to be much smaller. Now, I don't mind common operations getting built-in. But I like being able to build up everything from simple building blocks.

How do Haskell and LISP compare on the size/complexity scale? Also, I'm interested in the words to symbols ratio. A couple of common symbols is fine, but past a certain point, it just makes things unreadable.