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[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> Simon Peyton Jones had in his slides a nice graph of the reliability vs 
> performance issues. Functional languages were originally very slow, but 
> had the safety aspect. Imperative languages have always been fast, and 
> only gradually improved on the reliability front. Pure functional 
> languages have never given up the reliability aspect, so it's a bit 
> surprising how small amount of people here know what's their biggest 
> advantage.

I don't need convincing of that. I agree it is a great advantage to FP. 
I argue this point repeatedly when people question the point of 
immutability.