RE: Haskell in Scientific Computing?

[Hans Aberg]

At 02:30 -0700 98/10/16, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>Declarative languages *ought* to give a big handle on optimisation.
>FORTRAN compilers spend a lot of time deriving a functional program
>from the imperative one they started with, but they have to make
>conservative approximations.  So in principle we might do better.

  Exactly what does this mean that FORTRAN compilers derives a functional
program?

  Hans Aberg
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