RE: [Haskell-cafe] Shootout favoring imperative code

--- Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Some of the problems seem to be heavily geared towards an imperative *implementation*, meaning that a Haskell version is hardly idiomatic Haskell (and as such I , and I suspect otehrs, really have no inclination to work on it).

This may be correct, but it still doesn't address the question. Why does Clean fare so much better? Clean is purely functional, right? Chad Scherrer Computational Mathematics Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." -- Groucho Marx