[Haskell-cafe] Shootout favoring imperative code

[Scherrer, Chad]

Several people on this list have said that the shootout favors imperative code. Is this really the case? Why is it Clean seems to have no trouble (for the incomplete set of benchmarks that are written in it)?

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/clean.php

How difficult would it be to translate the Clean algorithms into Haskell?

-Chad