world as value

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Jun-1999, Marco Kesseler <mke@oce.nl> wrote:
> Anyway, for imperative programming I see no reason to use something
> 'similar to an imperative language that is not much worse'.

If 80% of your program is better suited to a functional paradigm,
it may well be easier to implement the remaining 20% which is best
suited to an imperative paradigm in something "similar to an imperative
language that is not much worse" than to pay the overheads that would
result from cross-language development, if you were to try to implement
the imperative 20% in a different language.

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