in reply to Imperative VS Functional - Imperative wins?

Without a seriously powerful compiler (like what various Lisps or Haskells provide), functional programming will always run slower than imperative programming. That's not what functional programming is for. It's for developer efficiency, not CPU efficiency. It's the reason we use Perl and not Java.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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