for run time speed use FP (functional programming)

Huh? Functional programming tends to be pretty expensive in terms of memory and arguably slower than a more procedural style (depending on whether your language of choice does tail-call optimization). Side effect-free programming with lots of first-class functions, closures, and lambdas floating around isn't easy to optimize. The traditional check-box feature of functional programming is implementation speed. (On the other hand, ghc can produce some damn fast code; on the gripping hand, gcc can beat ghc pretty handily. IME, of course.)

Functional programming techniques make some faster algorithms easier to write (divide and conquer, for instance; languages with lazy lists make dynamic programming absurdly easy). That's not necessarily the same thing, though.

Maybe by "functional" programming you mean "procedural"?

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In reply to Re^2: To use or not to use OO Perl by FoxtrotUniform
in thread To use or not to use OO Perl by monkfan

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