On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:54:56 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>I have conclusively demonstrated that Haskell is many orders of 
>magnitude slower than C even for a trivial program.

But what about non trivial problems?

I'm sure that Haskell was not developed for adding lots of numbers. (Not
counting the fact that is what all computers do ;) ) What does it do well, why
not try checking it against C++ with something it is designed for?

As for wasting you time, if you enjoyed yourself the time was not wasted.
Remember the old saying. Don't get depressed, get even.
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Regards
     Stephen

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