On 8/10/07, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haskell's purpose: To be a generally cool language > Haskell's competition: C++, SML, ... hundreds of thousands more and I make > no assertion of a representative sample ... >
Well, C++ is not really competitive with Haskell, because C++ does not have a GC, and it's trivial to corrupt the stack/heap. Wrt imperative languages, it probably makes more sense to compare Haskell with imperative languages that do have a GC and for which it's near impossible to accidentally corrupt the stack/heap. You'll find by the way that the imperative GC'd, stack/heap protected languages run *significantly* faster for many (not all I guess?) algorithms and applications. This will change with threading of course, but still if you've got a 1024-core Niagara 2012 machine, and the Haskell algorithm runs 65536 times as slowly as a single-core imperative GC'd language program, you're not going to see a significant speed-up ;-)
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