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Re:James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle by rbanffy on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @06:46PM (#1717845)
> I would use something like typed racket or haskell for all the critical parts to increase safety

I am not sure about Haskell, but, from my limited experience, Erlang runs at levels very close to C (my C, at least)

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Re:James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle by davidw on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:02AM (#1718918)
In terms of speed? Erlang's not even in the ballpark that C is in. I'm pretty sure Haskell significantly outperforms Erlang as well.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang...

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Re:James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle by rbanffy on Thursday September 23, 2010 @08:22AM (#1719332)
Well... At least my C is regarded as very readable ;-)
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