[unwind]

In Haskell strings are lists of characters (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Data-S...). I hear not everyone is thrilled with the performance implications. :)

Also not a Haskell programmer, and really not meaning to criticize. Haskell seems awesome and I should learn it some day.

[jerf]

Just so people know, there are arrays used for text manipulation in Haskell in the Data.Text library, and bytestrings in the ByteString library. The language as specified does indeed have strings in a linked list of numbers, but if you even remotely care about performance you don't use those, and most libraries don't either nowadays.

[unwind]

Thanks! I guess I was kind of hoping for someone with actual knowledge to fill in the details.