Re: [Haskell-cafe] Game of life in haskell.

leimy2k:

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jon Harrop wrote:

On Tuesday 02 February 2010 18:23:59 Serguey Zefirov wrote: > 2010/2/2 Jon Harrop : > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 16:10:05 Serguey Zefirov wrote: > >> Actually, your solution with arrays is the most often occured solution > >> an imperative programmer will come with. It is simple but not scalable > >> and not particularly fast. > > > > What gave you that impression? > > Discussion in Russian Smalltalk User Group. > A solution in APL: http://catpad.net/michael/apl/ > Some experience before (my own first implementation and some of my > friends). > > Or, you're asking about scalability and speed?

I meant the scalability and speed. An imperative solution should be simpler, more scalable and faster than any purely functional solution.

That's a pretty strange comment. Why do you think an imperative solution is simpler, faster and more scalable?

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