Paulo Pinto: > Haskell is a good example. It can run as fast as C in most cases, but > you need to aproach your problem with a completely different mindset.
My small experience tells me otherwise: with Haskell you are able to approach something vaguely like C performance only if you use complex weird things (sometimes mutability too). Normal Haskell programs are usually not near C programs speed, unless they use a better algorithm compared to the C programs (this sometimes happens because Haskell is lazy, and lazyness sometimes allows to express certain better algorithms in a simpler way, that are harder to express correctly in C). Bye, bearophile
