[Haskell-beginners] Re: Is Haskell for me?

[Felipe Lessa]

On 11/6/09, Gaius Hammond <gaius at gaius.org.uk> wrote:
> To be fair, Python offloads its heavy lifting to C libraries - NumPy
> and SciPy run at very close to full C speed on large datasets. This is
> also how Matlab works. Unladen Swallow is an upcoming JIT compiler for
> Python.
>
> Where Haskell shines for computation is when you can leverage lazy
> evaluation.

*If* you can offload most of your work to SciPy. Depending on what you
do this is at least difficult. I don't know how much of a neural
network can be represented as big fat matrix :).

-- 
Felipe.