Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is the #functional programming paradigm antithetical to efficient strings? #Haskell

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 11 July 2016 at 13:54, David Fox wrote:

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When I mentioned some of this, I was told "different data structures for different purposes", which sort of makes sense, but honestly if Haskell

is a

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language where you have to sit down and choose a representation every time you want to build some text, I get a bit discouraged.

Don't C# and Java have StringBuilder classes (different to their regular String types) for this as well?

Maybe imperative OO is also antithetical to efficient strings...

​Probably.​