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		banned_man on April 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell: It’s like Klingon, but with math I'm curious why you consider C to be safe but Haskell not. Seeing as C has no bounds checking on arrays, runtime type-checking, or garbage collection, I'm tempted to argue to the contrary.

science4sail on April 17, 2009 [–]

I'm guessing that Periodic means "safe" in terms of popularity and visibility, not ease of programming.

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