Given the Shootout results, the difference is a matter of a few
seconds. If Clean Programmers need those few extra seconds, they're
welcome to them.
We're Lazy around here. :)
/Joe
On Nov 4, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
So I take it you are saying that it really *cleans* Haskell's clock
when it comes to speed? ;-)
- Greg
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
So what's the deal with Clean? Why is it preferable to Haskell?
Why is it not?
(1) Speed.
(2) If you are a Windows developer, the fact that Windows is the
primary
platform and others (even Mac OS, which is historically ironic) are
second- (or in the case of Solaris) third-class citizens.
(3) Did I mention speed?
(4) It comes with its own IDE. I don't think it can do anything
much that
Haskell tools can't do, but if you don't like looking for things,
it's
a help.
(5) Plus of course there's speed.
(6) They're working on a Haskell front end, so you won't actually
have to
choose. (Anyone doing a Clean front end for Haskell?)
(7) Haskell now has bang-patterns so you can specify (a bound on)
intended
strictness when you declare a function. But that's not in
Haskell 98.
(8) As a result of this, speed is a bit more "declarative" than
adding
$! in strange places.
(9) There's a theorem prover for Clean, called Sparkle.
Sadly, it's Windows-only, but we all know what most computers on
the
planet run, don't we? (It's probably Symbian, actually.)
(10) And finally, of course, there's speed. Did I mention that?
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