[Haskell-beginners] Compiling C into Haskell

[Hein Hundal]

--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... makes the standard
> programmer assumption that you want one mega-language to
> kill all other languages.
> 
> Haskell has some cases in which it's fast, quick to code,
> and very useful.
> C also has some cases in which it's fast, quick to code,
> and very useful.
> 
> Use Haskell where the first holds, use C where the second
> holds, use something else where neither holds.
> 

Hi Thomas, 

   I currently don't know enough about Haskell to answer the question "Will Haskell be fast, quick to code, and very useful for this project?"

   For my machine learning project, I will definitely have to do a lot of complex operations on matricies.  I want the abstraction power of Lisp, but all the compilers for Lisp seem to produce rather slow executables.  I was hoping that Haskell might work for this project or Haskell plus the LAPACK numerical computation library.

Cheers,
Hein


PS:  I feel that I need to comment on your use of the phrase "dumb question".  Some beginners are young and they might be put off by the use of language that could be interpreted as a put down.  Perhaps in the future, if you want to use that phrase in a beginners forum you could put the word dumb in quotes.  That way, the reader is less likely to interpret it as a put down.  :)