Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[renoX]

On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 08:00:09 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> I think this is a really interesting argument. Don't write ugly 
> things to get performance. Instead write obviously correct 
> things and then make obvious optimisations.

Bah, except that if you use everywhere big ints, floating point 
intervals instead of floating points (the former is the correct 
representation of reals, the latter isn't), normalized strings, 
the obvious optimisations won't necessarily be enough to avoid 
being very slow..