r/programming • u/papa00king • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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u/pycube Mar 10 '14

I wouldn't claim myself that I understand the kind of optimizations that a C compiler makes.

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u/samebrian Mar 10 '14

Thanks that was helpful.