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		kick on Feb 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Miranda released as free software k is faster than hand-written C in many cases, and significantly faster than compiled Haskell.

Volt on March 1, 2020 [–]

You're ignoring the main point of the comment though:

>For example, you couldn’t write a performant compiler in them.

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