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This is a bad application of the quote.

Most of the Lisp hackers are usually knowledgeable about analysis of algorithm complexity.

Alan Perlis comment talks about inefficiency of Lisp programs due to a lot of (meta) abstraction and indirect mapping of abstract software to hardware.

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Admittedly, this particular case seems amenable to fairly straightforward algorithmic complexity analysis, but it seems to me that the lazy nature of Haskell seems to make it even harder to get a good grasp of costs involved than in a language like Lisp.

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