scott wrote:
>> One could make similar sarcastic remarks about the population at large 
>> refusing to learn Haskell even though it is clearly and obviously the 
>> most powerful programming language ever devised. 
> 
> Well, so long as you don't need any decent execution speed :-)

Are speeds in the range of 2-5x slower than C/C++ acceptable?  I 
thinking it's as good a trade off as was going from assembly to C 
several decades ago.  Specially as seeing as whole lucrative businesses 
have been built around scripting languages that are about 100 to 1000 
times slower than C/C++.

Haskell GHC compiler is one of the top in the computer shootout game:
http://tinyurl.com/cg5v2j

It's currently faster even than OCaml, Ada and Java -server.

Also, g++ loses to Free Pascal when taking memory usage into 
consideration. :)

though it's certainly strange seeing LuaJit *before* java -server and 
python and ruby not much behind... OTOH, I peeked a few C++ codes and it 
looked downright assembly.

Ah, nothing more fake than programming in assembly disguised in your fav 
programming language... :P

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