spookylukey

See also Gervase Markham's "Poetic Licence" http://www.gerv.net/writings/poetic-licence/bsd.html

Compared to the amount of optimisation that many people typically do (i.e. zero or close to zero), it was a large amount of extra work to get that performance boost. The global re-arrangements of the way data flows through the code are more difficult than many micro-optimisations, not less, so I don't understand how you can claim.

And you don't have to be an expert in C to make the claim he is making, because most people are not experts in C, but might turn to it because "it's faster". It's precisely this kind of person who needs to understand that with their level of knowledge, and the amount of effort that they might put into optimisations, Haskell can be just as good or better.

This article starts by totally misrepresenting the original article (http://paulspontifications.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/when-haske...) by saying that it said "Haskell beats out C when it comes to speed".

If you bother to read even the TLDR of the original article you 'll find it says something completely different, which makes this article pretty poor as a response.

Why did you write it if you have never run it? Was it just for people who read your article and might want to run the code?

This doesn't work with sites that return 'X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN' or 'DENY', which is probably the simplest and best click-jacking countermeasure. It's used by some big sites (e.g. Google), and increasingly used by modern frameworks (e.g. in Django 1.4 it is not yet on by default, but extremely easy to enable - just uncomment one line in the default settings file).

Something to be aware of!

Why would I give my email address to someone in exchange for something I know nothing about, and cannot find any info about?