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This paper summarises some of the results of a study into the use of Haskell for a network simulation application. These results are compared with a Pascal implementation of the same program to give an indicator of how well Haskell performs against conventional languages for this task.
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Sanders, P. (1992). Experiments in Haskell - A Network Simulation Algorithm. In: Heldal, R., Holst, C.K., Wadler, P. (eds) Functional Programming, Glasgow 1991. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3196-0_23
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