[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fun with Haskell, runST, MArray, and a few queens.

[ajb at spamcop.net]

G'day all.

Quoting Hampus Ram <d00ram at dtek.chalmers.se>:

> I say this is a case of bad code. Of course language <foo> is faster and
> better if you write horribly bad code in language <bar>.

Good link from LtU:

        http://www.deftcode.com/archives/every_language_war_ever.html

Any direct literal translation of a program from one language to another
is probably going to lose something (at least readability, probably also
efficiency) unless the languages are similar.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage