scott wrote:
>> If all you're trying to do is sum all the elements in a list, neither 
>> approach has a really compelling advantage or disadvantage. I used it 
>> as an example of a simple task that anybody can easily understand, and 
>> used it to illustrate the difference in mentallity between the two 
>> approaches.
> 
> I guess the difference would be in more complex examples then, when both 
> the human C++ coder and the Haskell compiler have to work harder to get 
> efficient code.

If all you're after is the ultimate machine efficiency, C can probably 
still do that better than almost any other language, given enough skill.

But what about factors such as code size, readability, maintainability, 
code reuse, polymorphism, etc etc etc?

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