This was interesting to me. I'm learning Haskell right now, after using Python as my main prototyping / glue / tools language (I get paid to write in C++ and Ob

This was interesting to me. I'm learning Haskell right now, after using Python as my main prototyping / glue / tools language (I get paid to write in C++ and Objective-C). The horrifyingly broken performance of the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) on multi-core has me looking for an alternative for performance-sensitive higher-level code. Typically I experiment with a new higher-level language, and then fall back on "I'll meta-program in the high-level language, and emit portable C code." Sigh.