[Haskell-cafe] Implicit parameters and Arrows/Yampa?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Peter,

Monday, January 7, 2008, 10:59:30 PM, you wrote:

> Here's a thought: I hardly know Haskell, but I can already write
> some code much faster and easier than I could do in C/C++ (and I've
> been programming 2 decades in that language, plus my colleagues tell
> me I'm pretty productive at it...). So I wonder what the
> productivity becomes when you can write code as quickly as Claude seemed to do here...

are you hear about 7-zip? it's rather popular high-ratio compressor.
last two years i've developed my own archiver and outperformed 7-zip
in functionality. when people ask why i don't joined 7-zip project
instead (it's LGPL-licensed), i say what using C++ i will develop the
same program 3x slower

[1] http://freearc.sf.net

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com