To be honest, your comment strikes me as far more "religious" than the article, which (since you obviously didn't RTFA) documents optimizing a particular bit of

To be honest, your comment strikes me as far more "religious" than the article, which (since you obviously didn't RTFA) documents optimizing a particular bit of haskell code to be on par with an equivalent implementation in C. The article is not saying that haskell (the language) is faster than C. If all you have is a hammer...