[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Speed

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 09:10:56PM +0100, Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
> this program counts two times length of lists of strings formed by
> lines, and words and third time counts again length of file.
> This is not just word counting program, it creates two additional lists,
> which are not used anywhere but to count :)
> While it is certainly expressive, in terms of programing is pointless.
> No one would write such a code for word counting.

Come on! Sometimes the only thing you want is a simple, *correct*
solution for the problem, for example just to test the ugly,
efficient version.

Best regards
Tomasz

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