Hello Bill, Monday, August 3, 2009, 12:01:27 AM, you wrote:
> I have done some "real-world" programming in Prolog and SML. The > conventional wisdom in the LP community seems to be that the primary > path to performance improvement of logic programs is by reduction of > non-determinism. and the primary way to make haskell program faster is to emulate imperative language. and the best way to optimize C program is to use it as cpu-independent assembler. it's all natural in von-Neumann world and i personally don't buy these as arguments against everything developed since 1956 actually it supports their's POV: LP is an FP plus non-determinism so why buy a part instead of whole thing? if they need to teach students how to optimize programs, Haskell will be out of luck anyway -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
