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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by bitwize on Thursday February 16, 2017 @10:16AM (#13660473)
> That, however, takes you are back to the old problem: A heavily optimized C program looks like C. A heavily optimized [insert functional programming language here. Most often haskell] program looks like shit.

Couldn't that be explained by observing that C looks like shit, and we've just gotten so used to the look (and the smell!) that we fail to notice?

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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by Johnny_Brahms on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:21PM (#13661709)
Let me rephrase: for some types of problems it is easier to use an imperative language, because it is easier to express the fastest way of doing it imperatively.
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