[Haskell-cafe] Re: OCaml list sees abysmal Language Shootout results

[Andre Pang]

On 08/10/2004, at 2:57 PM, karczma wrote:

>> But the language encourages to use them much more often than in
>> Haskell. They can be declared in types, there is a short syntax for
>> "strict let", and various builtin types have strict variants. These
>> are properties of the language.
>
> Marcin, are you playing 'kogut', or you want to prove something,
> and if yes, than what?

I believe that Marcin wishes to prove the same point that I want to: 
namely, Clean encourages use of strictness by making it easier to use 
(via language annotations).  At the risk of sounding ignorant and 
arrogant, I think the Haskell community in general does not understand 
the importance of syntactic sugar to make such tasks easier.


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