RE: Haskell in Scientific Computing?

[Hans Aberg]

At 02:30 -0700 98/10/16, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>Another approach is to compete not head-to-head on speed, but on
>cunning.   Get a good library of numeric procedures (e.g. Mathlab), ...

  Note that it is "MatLab", short for "Matrix Laboratory".

>...interface them to Haskell, and use Haskell as the glue code to make
>it really fast to write complex numerical algorithms.  99% of the
>time will still be spent in the library, so the speed of the Haskell
>implementation is not very important.  This looks like a jolly productive
>line to me.

  In addition, this method might give clues on how Haskell might be extended.

  Hans Aberg
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