RE: Eu's poor design
- Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Aug 18, 2003
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Pete Lomax wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:53:25 +0000, Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> > wrote: > > >I suggest this for reading: > > > >http://www.haskell.org/complex/why_does_haskell_matter.html > > > Thanks for the link, you reacquainted me with Simon L Peyton Jones, I > first purchased one of his books back in 1987... > > I think it's quite amusing to note that Haskell (which I hope most > people will agree is a fairly advanced language) does not have pass by > reference! > By the way, I have successfully been able to make functions in Haskell, compile them into a .dll, and call them from Euphoria if anyone is interested (just passing atoms back and forth so far -- haven't gotten into how you would do arrays or reference direct memory). The optimized code from the Haskell GHC compiler is very fast.