Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] I read somewhere that for 90% of a wide class of computing problems, you only need 10% of the source code in Haskell, that you would in an imperative language.

On 2009-10-01 18:47 +0200 (Thu), Alberto G. Corona wrote:

May be because consciousness is relatively new and thus, not optimized.

Actually, no; our brains are very, very highly optimized. Only they're optimized for minimum power usage, not making the best decisions. For more information, see Read Montague's _Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions_. cjs -- Curt Sampson +81 90 7737 2974 Functional programming in all senses of the word: http://www.starling-software.com