-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/5/10 10:52 , C K Kashyap wrote: > And I had built up this impression that laziness distinguished Haskell > by a huge margin ... but it seems that is not the case. > Hence the disappointment.
Haskell is lazy-by-default and designed around lazy evaluation, whereas most other languages are strict by default, designed around strictness, and make you do extra work to get laziness which you then may lose rather easily. Sometimes it's as easy as using an iterator, other times it means passing around closures and invoking them at just the right time. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyrVcgACgkQIn7hlCsL25W5tQCeMoY6XCcDLKFh3tbwdrliQSqd grcAnjCGqxBwRsEoI2pG3+ZgA4biSDAw =kgwK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
