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Given that many people have found FP languages with algebraic data types excellent for implementing compilers, I am willing to bet it was more of a team issue than a technology issue :-)


> Then half the programers fled

It does sound like something was going on that went beyond the choice of languages.


Ends up being slow for no reason other than a fetishism for FP.

Take a look at LLVM. Its C++.




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