Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

[Juergen Pfitzenmaier]

Mark Engelberg wrote:
> This is a huge difference, and makes Haskell look incredibly slow by
> comparison.  The speed difference in this case is well worth the extra few
> lines of code.
>
> Presumably, since I am a total newcomer to Haskell, my Haskell program is
> not truly representative of how to best implement this algorithm in Haskell,
> so the comaprison to C++ is probably unfair.

I dont't care very much how fast a program runs. I care about how long it
takes me to write it. If you take a programming task of reasonable complexity
you will finish *months* earlier using a --good-- functional language
instead of C++. 

Use a functional language and buy a faster computer with the saved money/time.

juergen
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