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Re:All Programming Languages are Wrong (2018) by random_guy1234 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:49AM (#22307437)
> But of course, there are

Your statements are contradictory.

> they might one day actually become faster

faster compared to C/C++ ? Of course, Performance is improving day by day. What's the point?

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Re:All Programming Languages are Wrong (2018) by erezsh on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:12PM (#22417513)
It's not contradictory. I'm saying that the things he says are true, and there are many languages that follow that line of thought.

Yes, faster than C++. Better abstractions can, sometimes, give the compiler more flexibility to optimize.

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