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a high-level language makes
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a programmer's life easier
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a compiler writer's life harder
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perceived overheads of features discourage their use
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higher-order functions
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polymorphic datatypes
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Last edited on 2005-01-18 15:02:29 by <span title="cfs32.cs.cornell.edu"><a href="MatthewFluet">MatthewFluet</a></span>.
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