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Subject: Re: English as a Programming language

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 08:53:51 07/14/01

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On July 13, 2001 at 22:34:34, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I can't say that I agree about your assertions about functional programming
>languages, not now anyway. Both Common Lisp and OCaml rival the speed of C. Any
>problems with those languages are usually the result of naive implementations.


Your assertion that they can rival the speed of C is not too surprising, since
both OCaml and Common Lisp also support imperative programming. Any language
that effectively includes C as a subset can rival C in speed.



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