[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/15/10 03:01 , Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Donn Cave <donn at avvanta.com
> <mailto:donn at avvanta.com>> wrote:
>      We'll have a three way choice between programming
>     elegance, correctness and efficiency.  If Haskell were more than
>     just a research language, this might be its most prominent open
>     sore, don't you think?
> 
> No, that's just FUD. 

More to the point, there's nothing elegant about [Char] --- its sole
"advantage" is requiring no thought.

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