On Oct 1, 7:17 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:

> a) no language is inherently more or less efficient than any other language.  
> The efficiency
> aspect is only related to how those languages are implemented (i.e., the 
> investments made in
> optimizing the compilers/interpreters)

I used to believe the same. But if you see Richard Bird's paper:

More haste less speed 
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/richard.bird/online/BirdJonesDeMoor1997More.pdf

maybe you would rethink this position?
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