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Haskell vs. Java Smackdown
Defmacro.org has a small example of Haskell’s expressive power and the same code written in Java. Both take five lines of code to “[go] through a parse tree of Haskell source code, locates every reference to an identifier that ends with ‘Widget’, puts it on a list, and removes duplicates so every identifier is represented in the list only once.” Impressive. I believe that Haskell code is a bit more general and defmacro.org argues that it’s more maintainable. You be the judge.
Posted by windley on December 18, 2006 4:00 PM
Comment from Michael Neale at December 19, 2006 4:14 AM
What I find interesting is his comment on productivity and *think time*. His comment that he spends a lot of time thinking and very little typing with haskell indicates to me that its a certain type of mind that is well suited to terse functional langauges. I have always felt the same, whilst in java I would just bash things out and see what happens, in other langauges I sit and ponder (assuming I am an idiot) and when the solution presents itself it is clean and simple. Perhaps its a matter of personal style.
Comment from Francis at June 7, 2007 8:58 AM
the first line in the haskell code is innecesary.
it is like a comment.
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