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> "Programming languages tend to elevate some ideals before concerns of practical safety, performance or just common sense."

That statement would be difficult to substantiate, particularly in the context of functional languages. Practical safety, performance, and common sense are absolutely priorities; the ideals that functional language design follows are servants of those goals, not the master.




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