>>   I give up. For some reason trying to teach you something seems
>> completely pointless.
> 
> Now now. He *did* say he got it working. :-)  And you must admit, 
> printf() isn't the most intuitive way of printing something.

No, it seems Warp is right.

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

After all these years of using Haskell, I thought I understood how it 
worked. I read all the papers about all the sophisticated optimisations 
the compiler performs. And I felt sure I knew what I was doing. But, 
clearly, I don't.

I have wasted 4 years of my life on Haskell. It is so beautiful and 
eligant, I wanted it to be the answer, and I blindly believed that it 
would be. Clearly it isn't.

The irony, the sheer irony of it, is that the whole reason I was timing 
this stuff in the first place was that I was just about to reach into 
the source code of the compiler to try to tweak its performance. It is 
obvious to me now that I shouldn't be let anywhere near an actual 
compiler. Better to leave that to the real experts.

It seems I've been deluding myself. All these years, I thought I was 
some kind of master programmer. What, just because I've been writing 
programs for 20 years, that makes me an expert? Just because I wrote 
some trivial raytracer and it kinda worked, that means I'm good at 
programming? Who the hell am I kidding?

I am now the laughing stock of this forum. Nobody is ever doing to take 
anything I say about Haskell seriously ever again. Even better, when I 
asked about this in the Haskell forum, I got yelled at for being a 
troll. (Again.)

So, not only do I fail at programming, I fail at human interaction. It 
seems everywhere I do, people yell at me for being immature and 
outspoken. Maybe I should just take myself away somewhere and figure out 
WTF is *wrong* with me. I fail at life.

I'm sorry.

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