I agree. If you're aiming for really terse code, have a look at the
J/K languages. These seem to win most golf-shootout type competitions.
Haskell is more focused on expressiveness and abstraction.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Michael Mossey
rizwan hudda wrote:
I have recently started learning haskell, and was trying to write a code for this problem http://www.spoj.pl/problems/KAMIL in haskell. The aim is to write a shortest possible code for the given task. I have previously solved this in c,c++,perl,python.My best was 57 characters using perl. So here's my code in HASKELL:
main = interact $ unlines. map (show.foldl (\a x-> if null $ filter (==x) "TDLF" then a else a+a) 1) .lines
It is 107 characters [ non white space and newline ]. I was interested in knowing how i could further optimize the size of this code.
This kind of contest is fun, but I can't help thinking I hope you are learning Haskell to appreciate the things that functional programming is good at. Real-world Haskell is often more concise than other languages because Haskell has mechanisms for eliminating unnecessary and redundant code, but Haskell's strength is not winning "shortest program" contests.
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