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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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