Is Haskell the Cure?

Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by dorian-graph on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:20AM (#3065710)

Hasn't the author already said that the measuring of Fibonacci was not the point of his tirade? Which makes the line in this post 'I think a lot of people missed the main point of Dziuba's troll" slightly amusing. Is there now going to be someone running this 'benchmark' in whatever language they can? One of the blogs already posted said he's going to find time to run it in C.

I'll do my part. Delphi, here I come. ;)

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by bobfunk on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:25AM (#3065721)

My benchmark was mostly a parody, since Haskell just memoized the call and never really did the work.

The point of the article was more the difference between the languages that really tackles concurrency (Haskell, Clojure, Go, Erlang) and Node's way of simply offering one solution that works for a lot of problems where the common scripting languages (especially PHP) doesn't work that well.

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by lurker19 on Monday October 03, 2011 @07:21AM (#3065851)

Haskell broke the Programming Language Shootout by the compiler and runtime optimizing the busy-loop tasks into no-ops and memoizations.

It is hard to write a Haskell program that is gimped enough to be in league with other languages in a synthetic benchmark.

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by alexatkeplar on Monday October 03, 2011 @08:29AM (#3066012)

Don't forget Akka (esp Scala-Akka) in that list!

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by gtani on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:18AM (#3066143)

I just put up a [[actors in _ lang]] list

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7566548/actor-based-distr...

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by piccadilly on Monday October 03, 2011 @06:25AM (#3065720)

I'm not interested in this Fibonacci benchmark until someone does it in TriINTERCAL.

PLEASE GIVE UP

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