tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100397.post5181939223618207415..comments2022-10-01T10:49:59.431-07:00Comments on Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog: Haskell it isMark Watson, author and consultanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514730816583918651noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100397.post-63337087262671246712010-01-13T16:27:52.159-07:002010-01-13T16:27:52.159-07:00I made the same choice, I used to use Gambit for e...I made the same choice, I used to use Gambit for everything but have recently switched to Haskell. GHC is so fantastic, I've noticed a 2-3 times speedup when compared with my Scheme code (and Gambit is no slouch) and this is even when using purely functional data structures like Maps compared against Hashtables in Gambit.<br /><br />Hope it's going well for you.Andrew Whaleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05346078852977103014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100397.post-58854923473773267582008-12-16T11:28:00.000-07:002008-12-16T11:28:00.000-07:00Hello Bjørn,Clojure looks good and the fact that i...Hello Bjørn,<BR/><BR/>Clojure looks good and the fact that it runs on the JVM is a big win. However, I was looking for something that would not only serve a requirement for high performance/low memory use but also something that would stretch my brain a bit - I enjoy learning new things.<BR/><BR/>I am already using Common Lisp a lot right now (examples for a book on AllegroGraph) and I generally use either Common Lisp and Scheme for about 25% all of my development (averaged over the last 10 years) - so I was looking for something different, and not Lisp-like.Mark Watson, author and consultanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05514730816583918651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100397.post-19777670598710098722008-12-16T11:18:00.000-07:002008-12-16T11:18:00.000-07:00I'm just curious, but did you consider Clojure? If...I'm just curious, but did you consider Clojure? If so, why did you chose Haskell instead? The reason for my question is that I want to pick up one of those languages myself.Bjørn Arild Mælandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215577894638007872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100397.post-78428908745889835462008-12-14T14:23:00.000-07:002008-12-14T14:23:00.000-07:00Thanks Don. I am a real novice at using Haskell bu...Thanks Don. I am a real novice at using Haskell but since I enjoy learning and using the language, I hope to get proficient sooner rather than later :-)Mark Watson, author and consultanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05514730816583918651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7100397.post-47307038469014425422008-12-07T13:44:00.000-07:002008-12-07T13:44:00.000-07:00Good luck, and lean on the large Haskell community...Good luck, and lean on the large Haskell community for help. I agree, Haskell's aiming at fast shared memory machines, Erlang's aiming at fault tolerant distributed systems.<BR/><BR/>Quite different markets.Don Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08476737262404343154noreply@blogger.com