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15 Nov 2024 07:14:47 EST (-0500)
  Re: Haskell raving  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 1 Nov 2007 14:04:23
Message: <472a2337@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   But hey, that's the fad in modern programming: Memory usage and speed
> are irrelevant. Processors are getting faster and memory amounts are
> doubling every couple of years, so who cares if something like a string
> takes 12 times as much memory as it could?

Well, no. There are people working in the Haskell community to fix this 
and related problems. (Can't comment on other programming languages...)

The nice thing about Haskell is that is *allows* you to come up with a 
better implementation and slip it in there later.


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