> It seems a bit of a broad generalisation to say "Haskellers have a hard time translating an algorithm" based on who happened to be on the IRC channel at the t

> It seems a bit of a broad generalisation to say "Haskellers have a hard time translating an algorithm" based on who happened to be on the IRC channel at the time and decided to answer a challenge from a random C++ programmer who turned up. I'm not a "C++ programmer". I'm just a programmer. I happened to have the algorithm written in C++, but I could quite easily have written it in pseudocode. I got about 6 responses in 20 minutes. Four of those were O(m^n). Yes, I think this is quite indicative that Haskellers have a hard time writing performant code.