Re: [Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

bulat.ziganshin:

oh, can we stop saying about shootout? if you want to see speed of pure haskell code, look at papers about fast arrays/strings - their authors have measured that lazy lists are hundreds times slower than idiomatic C code. is use of lazy lists counted as mistake too and paper authors had too small haskell experience?

Comparing apples against oranges is a mistake, yes. -- Don