Analysis of programming languages on Rosetta

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/24/14, 12:38 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Joakim:
>
>> I wonder why they found Haskell to be so slow, I thought it was compiled.
>
> The first reason for the performance of programs is how much care the
> programmer has to write a fast program, secondly how good the chosen
> algorithms are, and only then at a third place there are language
> implementations.
>
> So the short answer to your question is that most of the Haskell
> programs of Rosettacode are not written for performance. The corollary
> is that performance comparison is silly/bogus.
>
> Often the faster programs of Rosettacode are in... guess a language?
> Yes, in D. Because I have written also performance conscious D entries
> (sometimes I have added various D solutions, at various levels of
> performance, succinctness, safety & correctness).

I wonder why D appeared only scarcely in this paper. -- Andrei