Hein Hundal wrote:
I currently don't know enough about Haskell to answer the question "Will Haskell be fast, quick to code, and very useful for this project?"
Haskell is extremely quick to code and can be made fast, but you have to spend time learning it. It's not a language that you can just pick up like that when coming from an imperative background, especially concerning the "can be made fast" part.
For my machine learning project, I will definitely have to do a lot of complex operations on matrices. I want the abstraction power of Lisp, but all the compilers for Lisp seem to produce rather slow executables. I was hoping that Haskell might work for this project or Haskell plus the LAPACK numerical computation library.
What are the complex operations you want to do on matrices? There is the hmatrix that binds to LAPACK and is a pleasure to use, but it's mainly about matrix multiplication and other numerical matrix operations. Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com