On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Robert Ennals wrote: > Haskell is a good language, pureness is good, type classes are good, > monads are good - but laziness is holding it back.
Hear hear. I have often wondered how much simpler the various Haskell implementations would be if they used strict evaluation. It seems like laziness complicates implementations tremendously; the STG-machine paper makes my head spin. If laziness is really getting you down, you could try Mercury -- it is pure, strict and has type classes, although it has no built-in monad handling. I seem to remember seeing something about it having some support for explicitly-marked laziness, but I might be wrong about that. N _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
