On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:31 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > Darcs is written in the obscure boutique language Haskel. Haskel is a very > high level language, which means that you specify problems at a level higher > than the precise algorithm, which means that Haskel may implement an > exponential or high order polynomial time or storage space algorithm, which > runs fine on toy academic and test tasks, but never completes on real world > tasks. > > Such very high level languages will never produce usable software unless > they report the order of the algorithm.
ok, this is getting off-topic, but that must be a different Haskell than i was previously aware of :-) _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
