[Haskell-cafe] Is the #functional programming paradigm antithetical to efficient strings? #Haskell

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 12/07/16 3:36 PM, William Yager wrote:
> You picked the single slowest way to do it.
No, the way I did it was linear time, making it NOT the slowest
way to do it.  The point I was making is that the simplest
not-totally-stupid way to do it in Haskell isn't actually all that
bad compared with other languages.