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Re:The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf] by auggierose on Friday July 15, 2016 @08:05AM (#12100374)
Thanks for pointing out that "performant" is not in any english dictionary! (http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/performant-isn-t-a-word) Didn't know that.

Besides that, your "fast" code will not be as fast as it can be if you are only relying on purely functional code, at least on current architectures.

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Re:The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf] by bsummer4 on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:15PM (#12102027)
Do be fair, he said "impure language" and not "impure code".

"Looks like we need to let the scholars know - there are 18,300 uses of the non-word "performant" in scholarly papers" <- If that's not sarcasm, something is wrong. Performant is a word!

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Re:The Future of Standard ML (2013) [pdf] by auggierose on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:40PM (#12102205)
It is a word, just not an English one it seems! It certainly is a German word. That might explain a lot ;-) It might also explain the many occurrences, as there are many Germans writing papers in English.
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