[Haskell-cafe] Game of life in haskell.

[David Leimbach]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 February 2010 18:23:59 Serguey Zefirov wrote:
> > 2010/2/2 Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com>:
> > > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 16:10:05 Serguey Zefirov wrote:
> > >> Actually, your solution with arrays is the most often occured solution
> > >> an imperative programmer will come with. It is simple but not scalable
> > >> and not particularly fast.
> > >
> > > What gave you that impression?
> >
> > Discussion in Russian Smalltalk User Group.
> > A solution in APL: http://catpad.net/michael/apl/
> > Some experience before (my own first implementation and some of my
> > friends).
> >
> > Or, you're asking about scalability and speed?
>
> I meant the scalability and speed. An imperative solution should be
> simpler,
> more scalable and faster than any purely functional solution.
>

That's a pretty strange comment.  Why do you think an imperative solution is
simpler, faster and more scalable?

If functional programming can't provide any one of those, it's not worth
anything, and based on the membership in this list, the interest in it these
days, and the fact that I've seen many occasions where functional
programming lends itself to a faster implementation (in terms of time to
implement and test) that's actually readable sooner than a lot of imperative
approaches, I find your claim to be quite contrary and smells of
"trollishness".

Dave


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