18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
8:33 a.m.
Cristian Baboi wrote:
Haskell strengts as I see them:
- it is "lazy with class" - it is strongly typed - it has automatic memory management - it has a standard library - it has a compiler - it is available on several platforms - it has a community - it is free
Is there anything you would like to add ? That list describes Java right on (apart from the "lazy with class", which sounds Larry-Wall-ish though and might as well mean Perl :-)).
Higher-order functions, purity, pattern-matching, no-nonsense syntax, algebraic data types, ... Reinier