[REBOL] Re: Language shoot-out
From: larry::ecotope::com at: 7-Nov-2001 17:01
Hi Maarten
I would also draw attention to the Haskell interpreter, Hugs, which is very
nice for interactive programming ala REBOL:
http://www.haskell.org/hugs/
Also the lazy functional language Clean from the Netherlands:
http://www.cs.kun.nl/~clean/
Clean is very similar to Haskell in syntax but has more optimizations for
scientific and industrial programming. It has a very fast compiler and code
generator with automatic MAKE capability, also a nice time and space
profiler. Using strict evaluation and unboxed arrays, it produces
executables which run about 25% slower than equivalent code in C (in
contrast to REBOL which is more than 100 times slower). It is free for
non-commercial use.
BTW my benchmarks with Scheme and REBOL using DR Scheme showed Scheme to be
faster than REBOL on many programs (especially recursive solutions where
Scheme's tail-recursion converts to iteration) and slower on others. I found
the same with Ruby. It depends on the problem as well as the solution
method.
-Larry
