> The central fact is that even though it is technically possible, it is considered bad style in Haskell to access or update individual array elements. And ano

> The central fact is that even though it is technically possible, it is considered bad style in Haskell to access or update individual array elements. And another reason why Haskell will not fair well. A lot of numerical mathematics is linear algebra which involves, almost exclusively, updating array elements. I'm sure Haskell is good at some things but for many of the types of problems that numerical analysts face Haskell's paradigm just doesn't make sense. Especially when we have languages like Fortran/Matlab which were explicitly designed for computational mathematics.