[Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

[Gregory Crosswhite]

So I take it you are saying that it really *cleans* Haskell's clock  
when it comes to speed?  ;-)

- Greg


On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:

>
> On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>> So what's the deal with Clean? Why is it preferable to Haskell? Why  
>> is it not?
>
> (1) Speed.
> (2) If you are a Windows developer, the fact that Windows is the  
> primary
>    platform and others (even Mac OS, which is historically ironic) are
>    second- (or in the case of Solaris) third-class citizens.
> (3) Did I mention speed?
> (4) It comes with its own IDE.  I don't think it can do anything  
> much that
>    Haskell tools can't do, but if you don't like looking for things,  
> it's
>    a help.
> (5) Plus of course there's speed.
> (6) They're working on a Haskell front end, so you won't actually  
> have to
>    choose.  (Anyone doing a Clean front end for Haskell?)
> (7) Haskell now has bang-patterns so you can specify (a bound on)  
> intended
>    strictness when you declare a function.  But that's not in  
> Haskell 98.
> (8) As a result of this, speed is a bit more "declarative" than adding
>    $! in strange places.
> (9) There's a theorem prover for Clean, called Sparkle.
>    Sadly, it's Windows-only, but we all know what most computers on  
> the
>    planet run, don't we?  (It's probably Symbian, actually.)
> (10) And finally, of course, there's speed.  Did I mention that?
>
>
>
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