Re: [Haskell-cafe] To my boss: The code is cool, but it is about 100 times slower than the old one...

2012-11-29 Thread Ivan Salazar
I hear you, my friend. What I love of Haskell is that a lot of algorithms are very clean to express and understand compared to, say, Lisp or C. Compared to Lisp, function manipulation is also very clean (even compared to Racket). A great plus is also type inference. The bad side is that direct tr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] To my boss: The code is cool, but it is about 100 times slower than the old one...

2012-12-02 Thread Ivan Salazar
ing this maiking list, though. On Dec 1, 2012 9:18 PM, "wren ng thornton" wrote: > > On 11/29/12 2:17 PM, Ivan Salazar wrote: >> >> The bad side is that direct translation of algorithms are almost always >> very slow and the work needed to make them perform is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Mascot Poll Results

2011-11-27 Thread Ivan Salazar
I thought this matter was on the back burner. Add me for a No mascot vote. Have a good one. 2011/11/27 heathmatlock > Haskellers.com poll: > Yes 52 votes (50%), 22 verified votes (53%) > No 51 votes (49%), 19 verified votes (46%) > > Email: > Yes 14 (64%) > No8 (36%) > > > Seems a bit divid