[Haskell-cafe] RE: Haskell vs. Clean

Scherrer, Chad Chad.Scherrer at pnl.gov
Thu Jan 5 17:41:04 EST 2006


Interesting. Have there been any performance comparisons vs GHC et al?

Chad Scherrer
Computational Mathematics Group
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." -- Groucho Marx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Mitchell [mailto:ndmitchell at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:58 PM
> To: Scherrer, Chad
> Cc: daniel.carrera at zmsl.com; haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] RE: Haskell vs. Clean
> 
> Hi
> 
> > My knowledge of Clean is fairly limited
> Mine too, but one of the biggest differences is that Clean 
> has uniqueness types instead of Monads.
> 
> They are in fact so similar that you can convert between them, using
> Hacle: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~mfn/hacle/
> 
> I believe also that Clean has a lot more facilities for 
> strictness annotations, which may help with the speed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil
> 


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