Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in
gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:
The absurdly efficient number crunching is obviously not implementable
in Haskell - or indeed virtually any language except assembly. [...]
The pretty user interface is obviously not implementable in Haskell. [...]
It seems it would
be a fairly difficult task to implement the pattern matching engine
properly.
Why?
Writing *insanely* efficient number chrunking software requires a deep
understanding of the target architecture, and lots of playing with very
low-level constructs. Assembly is really the only language you can do it
with; even C is probably too high-level.
The "notebook" interface is very sophisticated and clearly beyond the
capabilities of any current GUI toolkit for Haskell. (Implementing this
would be approximately as hard as writing a full web browser in Haskell.)
The pattern matching engine could be implemented, but it's not a trivial
task. Mathematica's pattern matching is quite sophisticated. It would
take someone a while to do, that's all.
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