Re: Cryptarithm solver - Haskell vs. C++

[Bjorn Lisper]

"Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>* While Sisal is arguably nice than Fortran, it doesn't
>  really provide a new killer feature - rewriting all this
>  Fortran code, just for getting nice programs is maybe not
>  enough of an incentive.

As I remember it, a main argument for Sisal was that the freedom of side
effects would simplify the automatic parallelisation. So one important
percieved incentive was to actually get better performance than from
automatically parallelised Fortran.

Björn Lisper