Re: Very poor Lisp performance

Andr? Thieme <address.good.until.2005.sep.12@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>What you did was to create artificially an example which serves your
>purpose of showing how much better ML can be read. What you did not do
>was to mention how the pure functional programming style can complicate
>things. What if you need to pass an argument through 12 functions
>because you can't save it anywhere? Is ML then still easier to parse?

ML is not pure functional.

>How readable are webservers written in ML? Maybe ML is only useful for
>some specific tiny sets of pure mathematical applications, used in
>universities?

Maybe you don't have a clue?

mkb.
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