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by grumpyprole 1692 days ago
It can be extra work to reason about the performance and efficiency of functional programs, such is the case with higher level languages. But modelling the domain is far easier. I can solve difficult problems using Haskell, e.g. writing a specialist DSL compiler targeting a GPU. I'm just not smart or patient enough to solve such problems in C/C++ or Java, although I do concede that many can.