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by chubot 4113 days ago
I don't know Haskell, so there wasn't anything in my head. I basically know the ML subset of OCaml and I guess Haskell, and that doesn't really apply at all to the top K problem.

I was saying that OCaml was awkward for this problem, and the reply was that OCaml is but Haskell isn't. I'm not convinced after seeing the Haskell code. Python is both semantically and syntactically a better fit for that problem.
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codygman 4113 days ago
> I don't know Haskell, so there wasn't anything in my head.

Then what were you impling by saying:

> Do you know how this would look in Haskell?

Because that sentence seems to imply it would be very convoluted in Haskell. How can you imply it would look convoluted in Haskell if as you said:

> I don't know Haskell, so there wasn't anything in my head.

Anyway, onwards...

> I'm not convinced after seeing the Haskell code. Python is both semantically and syntactically a better fit for that problem.

You aren't convinced of what after seeing the Haskell code?

How can you come to the conclusion that Python is both semantically and syntactically a better fit for that problem if you don't know both Python and Haskell?

Can you give me the criteria you are using to come to that conclusion?

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