On 1/15/06, Donald Bruce Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sebastian.sylvan: > > On 1/15/06, Isaac Gouy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Haskell now ranked 2nd overall, only a point or so > > > > behind C: > > > > > > It was always obvious that the "Write the program > > > as-if lines of code were not being measured" clause > > > relied too heavily on contributors willingness to > > > co-operate. > > > > > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/faq.php#implementlist > > > > > > Maybe we finally have enough motivation to move to > > > some other measurement of program volume :-) > > > > > > > I was just thinking about that. Some code is very obfuscated due to > > No Sebastian, this is very obfuscated: > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/pretty.html > > ;) > > I think saying obfuscated is very unfair. We took advantage of some strengths > of Haskell, such as type inference, to reduce the number of lines. No > worse than, say, the SML MLton entries do -- and why not leverage this > advantage, > since our language can do it? > > In fact, we have 1 line entries for some of the problems that are just > not competitive, though very instructive. It would be nice to be able to > publish those.
I wasn't talking specifically about Haskell, but all languages (don't like browsing around other languages only to see highly compact and ugly solutions, which really don't give me a good taste for the langugae). Still, some Haskell implementations are clearly obfuscated to save lines in certain circumstances (like: "thread im om = do (x::Int) <- takeMVar im; putMVar om $! x+1; thread im om" int he cheap concurrencybenchmark, most people don't write Haskell code with semi-colons, and when they do they usually sequence them vertically, not horizontally). /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
