Re: [Haskell-cafe] Shootout favouring C

Isaac Gouy wrote:

Please keep to the true spirit of fictional crime writing and provide a motive for these evil characters who will stop at nothing to make Haskell seem some worse than C.

Erm, fictional? It strikes me that this particular brand of evil is more the norm than the exception. I think Bjarne Stroustrup put it quite well: http://public.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#compare That said, I see nothing to suggest that such is happening here. I do have objections to the shootout, but they're objections to the whole concept of benchmarks in general, not to these particular ones. -- Ben