First it was in Python, now in C++. The change was for speed reasons, not because they didn't like functional languages. It is simply that functional languages

First it was in Python, now in C++. The change was for speed reasons, not because they didn't like functional languages. It is simply that functional languages don't quite meet the speed requirement that Google needs. And yes, I know that Haskell can compile some extremely fast code, but it still has not insignificant issues with memory bloat.