29 Mar
2006
29 Mar
'06
4:08 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Brian Hulley wrote:
This sounds good. The only thing I'm wondering is what do we actually gain by using Haskell in the first place instead of just a strict language? It seems that Haskell's lazyness gives a succinct but too inefficient program which then needs extra code in the form of rewrite rules/pragmas, or else a complete rewrite in terms of seq etc to get it to run fast enough without space leaks...
Often the laziness is useful for purposes of efficiency as well though. -- flippa@flippac.org Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Most of the time you just get burnt worse though.