[Haskell-cafe] Made me smile

[Dan Piponi]

If you allow me to play Devil's advocate for a moment...just don't let
this guy ask you how long the Haskell version takes.

In fact, you can borrow a trick from the C++ version. Try this instead:

> import Data.Set
> main = interact $ unlines . toList . fromList . words

Assuming Data.Set is implemented the way I think it is it should
perform much better than the sort . nub version.
--
Dan

On 5/18/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> OK, so I was hanging out on this newsgroup I often lurk. And we're
> having a discussion. And I'm all like "Haskell is the greatest!" And
> they're all like "nah, Haskell sux". And this one dude goes "hey, look
> at this C++ code. How do you do that in Haskell?" And three other people
> look at this C++ and can't figure out what the heck it even does. So
> eventually he tells us what it does, and so I post some Haskell in a
> reply. And the some other guy writes this...
>
> (OK, not much point to this email. But it seriously made me LOL IRL!)
>
>
>
>
>
> Invisible wrote:
> >>>> int main()
> >>>> {
> >>>>     typedef std::istream_iterator<std::string> Is;
> >>>>     typedef std::ostream_iterator<std::string> Os;
> >>>>     std::set<std::string> t((Is(std::cin)), Is());
> >>>>     std::copy(t.begin(), t.end(), Os(std::cout, "\n"));
> >>>> }
>
> > OK then.
> > main = interact $ unlines . sort . nub . words
>
> Pwned!
>
> --
>   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>     His kernel fu is strong.
>     He studied at the Shao Linux Temple.
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