Hello Hugh, Tuesday, July 10, 2007, 11:26:43 PM, you wrote:
> Just a random observation: the competition for Haskell is not > really C or C++. C is basically dead; C++ is only really useful > when you dont want people to be able to read your source code. btw, in his HOPL paper http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf Bjarne emphasize that now C++ is language for system programming rather than application programming > Java comes close to being competition, but it's slow and eats memory never checked it myself, but people say that modern Java implementations are as fast as C# and close to C++ speeds -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe