Re: simplicity and seriousness and efficiency

1997-08-21 Thread Zooko Journeyman
Someone wrote: > Honestly, would you use a language which does not allow to program a > depth-first graph traversal in O(n). Ah. I didn't realize it was that bad. My understanding of Haskell is quite rudimentary. And yet, now that I think about it, I have never implemented a depth-first gr

simplicity and seriousness

1997-08-21 Thread Zooko Journeyman
one saying "We need to add all these features in order to make Haskell useful for serious programming!". That may well be true, depending on what the features actually are, but it strikes me as ironic since I came here in search of "fewer features, for serious programming". :-) Regards, Zooko, Journeyman Hacker