[Haskell-cafe] IO is a bad example for Monads

Luke Palmer lrpalmer at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 14:13:13 EST 2007


On Dec 10, 2007 7:09 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org> wrote:
> > there's the fear that laziness can impact performance,
>
> Hmm, tell them that performance isn't all and that laziness helps you to write
> more modular programs.

Nah, in this case I've found it's better to realistically compare the
performance of
Haskell to Perl/Python, because it usually blows them out of the water, despite
laziness :-)

Luke


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