On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons wrote:

> Winning against a mixed imperative/functional implementation in e.g.
> C/C++ require a lot of low-level implementation work - and you will
> end anyway implementing some kind of 'functional core'.

Greenspun's tenth rule, isn't it?

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