On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Brian Hulley wrote: > This sounds good. The only thing I'm wondering is what do we actually gain by > using Haskell in the first place instead of just a strict language? It seems > that Haskell's lazyness gives a succinct but too inefficient program which > then needs extra code in the form of rewrite rules/pragmas, or else a complete > rewrite in terms of seq etc to get it to run fast enough without space > leaks... >
Often the laziness is useful for purposes of efficiency as well though. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Most of the time you just get burnt worse though. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe