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?... Automatic array-bounds checking doesn't require functional programming. Besides, functional programming is not The One True Paradigm To Rule Them All eith
by Hexstream 17y ago
?... Automatic array-bounds checking doesn't require functional programming.
Besides, functional programming is not The One True Paradigm To Rule Them All either. Dataflow, for example, is an example of another superb paradigm.
- jrockway 17y agoThe general argument is against "it's too slow". People avoid FP because "it's too slow" in favor of languges like C that get you the wrong answer really quickly. (Functional programming is not "too slow", of course; consider the popularity of Ruby and realize that SBCL, OCaml, GHC, ... are often 50x faster. Of course, those are all 3x slower than C, so clearly should be avoided...)