Since we're posting benchmarks, here's Java vs Haskell: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=ghc&lang2=java http://benchmarksgame.aliot

Since we're posting benchmarks, here's Java vs Haskell: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=ghc&lang2=java http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan.... The Haskell implementations generally use much less memory than the Java ones and perform competitively. In spite of criticism that some of the Haskell implementations are not idiomatic, they're no more verbose than the Java ones in terms of LOC.