Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is Haskell unsuitable for?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:17 , David Virebayre wrote:

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Henning Thielemann
<lemm...@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Marc Weber wrote:

Hi Aditya Siram,

 shell scripts or C executables

- maybe shell scripting: running ghci takes longer than starting bash. Compiling is not always an option because executables are bigger than

Is Hugs better in this respect?

Or JHC ? JHC's executables are small.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH

Get shared libraries working, and this becomes a non-issue; you're not buying anything disk-wise if the file is smaller than the block size (does any production fs use fragments any more? I know Linux filesystems don't).

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