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On Thursday 14 August 2008 09:57:47 am Jon Harrop wrote:
> Monads and zippers?

They can be useful for the same reasons they are in Haskell.  You can always 
write OCaml code like Haskell code, it's just not always easiest to do it 
that way.

> Even if Haskell's performance is improved it will remain unpredictable and,
> consequently, it will continue to be impossible to optimize non-trivial
> Haskell programs.

That's true, but I think Haskell's point of view is to stop that completely.  
They want to remove optimization of code and put it into the hands of the 
compiler.  The ideal is to say to the programmer: "don't worry about 
performance and optimization, just write correct code.  The compiler will 
figure out the rest".  Clearly we're not at that point, and perhaps that 
ideal is a long ways to become true if possible at all.  But you gotta give 
them props for the idea.  It would be nice to only care about correctness and 
not performance.

Peng
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