Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is Haskell unsuitable for?

On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:17 , David Virebayre wrote:

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Marc Weber wrote:

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Hi Aditya Siram, - maybe shell scripting: running ghci takes longer than starting bash. Compiling is not always an option because executables are bigger than shell scripts or C executables

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Is Hugs better in this respect?

Or JHC ? JHC's executables are small.

Get shared libraries working, and this becomes a non-issue; you're not buying anything disk-wise if the file is smaller than the block size (does any production fs use fragments any more? I know Linux filesystems don't). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH