Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

[Nick Sabalausky]

Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:hqsn2j$1s29$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> bearophile wrote:
>>>> Being Haskell not easy, it's even possible for me to not understand the
>>>> explanation if some Haskell expert eventually explains me why that 
>>>> Haskell
>>>> program was slow :-)
>>> It's statements like this (and I've heard this repeatedly) that makes me 
>>> wonder what the value of Haskell actually is to conventional programming 
>>> tasks and regular programmers.
>>
>> Not that I have an opinion either way, but FWIW, very similar things 
>> could probably be said for C++.
>
> I know, and that creates an opportunity for other languages!

Definitely :)

Although, I guess what I meant by that was that if there were someone 
unexperienced in imperative systems languages, C++ would probably have a few 
things to teach them, even though it may present them in a 
much-less-than-ideal form.

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