[Haskell-cafe] Re: Mathematica

[Chung-chieh Shan]

Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote in article <4644BA82.4010202 at btinternet.com> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:
> The absurdly efficient number crunching is obviously not implementable 
> in Haskell - or indeed virtually any language except assembly. [...]
> The pretty user interface is obviously not implementable in Haskell. [...]
> It seems it would 
> be a fairly difficult task to implement the pattern matching engine 
> properly.

Why?

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