Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can Haskell outperform C++?

Sorry Bryan, there are a couple of comments I should make a final reply to - I'll ignore the rest.

From: Richard O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:52 PM

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Says who? Is that on your own authority or some other source you can point us to?

It looks increasingly as though there is no point in this discussion. Is there ANY conceivable criticism of Java that will not elicit ad hominem attacks from you?

It isn't an ad hominem attack to ask you who's the authority that made some recommendation. -snip-

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Wait just a moment - you wrote "I didn't _think_ I'd omitted   anything important" and now it turns out that the measurements were made   using your personal Smalltalk implementation!

You have got to be joking.

Why?

Because you omitted basic information about the measurements you presented. -snip-

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imo It would be better to "show how much better programs using other data structures and algorithms perform those specific tasks" than brandish anecdotes from a past century.

"Past century"?  Insults, is it?

No, it's an echo of the words you used - "...insanely difficult in Fortran 77.  This century's Fortran is of course another matter."