Deniz Dogan wrote:
Recently there has been a lot of discussion on this list about the programming language Clean and converting Clean programs to Haskell. Reading the Wikipedia article on the language, I can't really see any major difference between that and Haskell, except for the monads vs. uniqueness types.
So what's the deal with Clean? Why is it preferable to Haskell? Why is it not?
As far as I can tell, Clean is to Haskell as C is to Pascal. I.e., Clean is notionally very similar to Haskell, but with lots of added clutter, complexity and general ugliness - but it's probably somehow more machine-efficient as a result. (All of which makes the name "Clean" rather ironic, IMHO.) Of course, this is merely the opinion I formed after performing a cursory scan of some of the introductory documentation. I haven't actually seen any code written with it or anything, so my opinion probably doesn't mean a lot...