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by thfuran 1584 days ago
>FP is a higher level paradigm so you might have to trade off with performance too

Then it can hardly he said be to unequivocally be better, can it.
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0ldskool 1584 days ago
that's like saying high level languages cannot be unequivocally better then writing assembly, not doing your own memory management is bad, etc...

Functional programming is a higher level abstraction. If the underlying implementation is not well implemented/optimized then you could have bad performance while the opposite is also true.

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thfuran 1583 days ago
>that's like saying high level languages cannot be unequivocally better then writing assembly,

Yes, it is like saying that. At least, assuming by "cannot be" you mean "is not".

>not doing your own memory management is bad

No, it's not like saying that. Note how differently those claims are phrased.

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