Ironically, the C++ code he's attempting to match itself uses a higher-level language[1] to generate a soup of tables and gotos[2]. But I think that observatio

Ironically, the C++ code he's attempting to match itself uses a higher-level language[1] to generate a soup of tables and gotos[2]. But I think that observation supports the point he'd likely make: Haskell allows both the higher-level expressions of problems that produce optimization opportunities while preserving the option of dropping down to low-level trickiness if that's what you really need. [1] https://github.com/martine/ninja/blob/master/src/lexer.in.cc#L123 https://github.com/martine/ninja/blob/master/src/lexer.in.cc... [2] https://github.com/martine/ninja/blob/master/src/lexer.cc#L130 https://github.com/martine/ninja/blob/master/src/lexer.cc#L1...