[Haskell-cafe] Performance: MD5

[Andrew Coppin]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> Bulat is the naysayer of the group; according to him Haskell is a nice 
> idea that will never actually work (but he uses it anyway, who knows 
> how he rationalizes it to himself).
>

Bulat is apparently not alone in this belief. I seem to spend all my 
time on other forums dealing with people who have exactly the same opinion.

Of course, being able to come up with clean, elegant code which never 
the less performs well is a good way to counter this. Pity I haven't 
succeeded in producing any yet. :-S