[Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 5/11/2010, at 9:23 PM, Ketil Malde wrote:
>> Then there are algorithms that give
>> optimal results but blow up for anything much past 15 species, 
> 
> I.e, edit distance is O(n^k) for k sequences of length n.

I was actually referring to phylogeny reconstruction,
not edit distance.
> 
>> Then we turn to human designs, and suddenly THERE IS NO TREE.

Read what Guy Steel sad about the Fortress language; he refers
to about a dozen languages that influenced Fortress.