Re:Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
by zelly on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:27AM
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It's sad to see this kind of Stockholm syndrome. The author is fighting hard against the Haskell compiler to fit a square peg in a round hole. Programming languages are just tools, not religions. Programming languages are fake abstractions of the machine. When one doesn't work for you, you should have no problem switching to another. Loyalty to literally an arbitrary man-made mental model at the expense of your real life productivity makes zero sense.
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Re:Beating Decades of Optimized C with 80 Lines of Haskell
by pwm on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:45PM
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Funny how different people read this differently. I read it as a playful exploration of how far can you push your square peg into that round hole. No one uses Haskell as a faster C irl, that would not make much sense, that’s not where the strength of the language lies.