2 Oct
2003
2 Oct
'03
9:02 a.m.
Am Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2003, 10:52 schrieb Nicholas Nethercote:
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Robert Ennals wrote:
Haskell is a good language, pureness is good, type classes are good, monads are good - but laziness is holding it back.
Hear hear.
I have often wondered how much simpler the various Haskell implementations would be if they used strict evaluation. It seems like laziness complicates implementations tremendously; the STG-machine paper makes my head spin.
Yes, but I think that the reason for laziness is not to make compiler constructors' lifes easier but language users'.
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