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When I was working on the database engine of Big Corporation, I kept thinking to myself that C was a poor choice. Sure, it's close to the metal -- but those gains are often lost by the incredible amount of complexity that is added. I always said a Python database with CPython modules would be almost as fast and 100x easier to maintain; glad to see someone took this further and did it in Haskell. Great work, Dan!


Actually, that's almost exactly the progression I took; C -> Python -> Haskell.




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