Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 03:01 , Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Donn Cave mailto:donn@avvanta.com> wrote: We'll have a three way choice between programming elegance, correctness and efficiency. If Haskell were more than just a research language, this might be its most prominent open sore, don't you think?

No, that's just FUD.

More to the point, there's nothing elegant about [Char] --- its sole "advantage" is requiring no thought. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoBPgACgkQIn7hlCsL25WbWACgz+MXfwL6ly1Euv1X1HD7Gmg8 fO0Anj1LY6CqDyLjr0s5L2M5Okx8ie+/ =eIIs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----