[Haskell-cafe] Re: Mathematica

Andrew Coppin wrote in article <4644BA82.4010202@btinternet.com> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:

The absurdly efficient number crunching is obviously not implementable in Haskell - or indeed virtually any language except assembly. [...] The pretty user interface is obviously not implementable in Haskell. [...] It seems it would be a fairly difficult task to implement the pattern matching engine properly.

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