Old problem with performance

[Christopher Wright]

Kagamin wrote:
> Daniel Keep Wrote:
> 
>>> You probably don't want D, you want ATS:
>>> http://www.ats-lang.org/
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>> http://www.ats-lang.org/EXAMPLE/MISC/listquicksort.dats
>>
>> Dear god.  I think... I think I'm going to go cry in the corner...
> 
> Is it common for functional languages to love 1-letter identifiers, I wonder?

Probably. Mathematicians use "ab" to mean "a multiplied by b", so they 
tend toward single-character identifiers with subscripts. And functional 
languages seem to cater more toward mathematicians.

I tend to find most examples of the remarkable efficiency of functional 
languages entirely unreadable, partly because of this, and partly 
because they seem fond of using many operators, some in ways that I find 
bizarre.