[jheriko]

"If programming languages were about computational power, we would have stopped with Fortran.

Programming languages are about the freedom of expressions."

I strongly disagree, /some/ programming languages are about expressive power - others are about computational power.

We didn't stop with Fortran, we moved onto C then C++ - they might not be able to do anything more in the computer science theoretical sense, but in practice they produce faster executables, and in real world applications that means more computational power can be brought to bear on problems with these sorts of languages.

Maybe speed doesn't matter for your problem, or lambdas are an especially nice fit. Mainly I'm just worried that you are going to produce substandard code with this kind of mindset... good code is written with the language's strengths and weaknesses in mind, not to enable the flavour-of-the-month paradigm to be used in an extremely sub-optimal fashion.

[eru]

> [...] but in practice they produce faster executables [...]

C++ is faster than Fortran?

[jheriko]

In all tests I've done - yes it is. Although I haven't tested every compiler and platform for obvious reasons.