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

[Don Stewart]

ok:
>
> 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.

I'd strongly argue that speed is not a reason to use Clean -- esp. if
you have more than one core:

    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=clean&box=1

Nor a reason to use OCaml, for that matter:

    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=ocaml&box=1

The Haskell compiler isn't the bottleneck. Use it when performance matters. I do.

Reading the OP's statements, though, it seems picking the right library
is more of a problem. And widespread expertise in fast Haskell.

-- Don