[Haskell-cafe] Learning Haskell

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:47:46PM +0000, Robin Green wrote:
> > Some day you may thank for this verbosity, because it encourages
> > you do program in a purely functional way making your program more
> > friendly for SMP execution.
> 
> You are mistaken. The verbosity is necessary if you want "visual" referential 
> transparency, but not necessary if you only want pure functional programming. 
> Only the latter is helpful for optimisability. I am hoping to write a paper 
> on this topic.

I am afraid I don't understand.

PS. "I am after two hot beers" warning :-)

Best regards
Tomasz

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