On May 8, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Yves Parès wrote: > Would've expected always shorter code It's not so surprising if you consider that some of the programs are practically imperative programs in Haskell. To give an example: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=fannkuchredux&lang=ghc&id=3 -- Daniël