Certainly parsing large text files into structured data is easy in F# (with
libraries like FParsec). And tail-recursion is a blessing for this.
But my money would be on well-written C++ to be faster - it's simply a
lower level language. But it depends how "well written" it is.
As a whole I also
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324919/what-language-is-net-framework-written-in
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That's interesting, but it's a separate issue. My colleague claims that you
would always chose to write an app in C++ for better performance in
computationally intensive work. I counter-claim this is no
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324919/what-language-is-net-framework-written-in
C++ and assembly. Is that an answer? It'd mean something written on top
of dotnet won't run faster. But faster is seldom the main criteria
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 15:59 Greg Keogh Folks, back in the old forum
Folks, back in the old forum days we used to ban C# vs VB language wars,
except on Friday. Since it's late Friday I want to mention I'm in a war (a
skirmish) at the moment with a colleague who has been using
Borland/Embarcadero C++ since it was created back in the early 90s. Some of
our current
