>FP is a higher level paradigm so you might have to trade off with performance too
Then it can hardly he said be to unequivocally be better, can it.
Then it can hardly he said be to unequivocally be better, can it.
Functional programming is a higher level abstraction. If the underlying implementation is not well implemented/optimized then you could have bad performance while the opposite is also true.
Yes, it is like saying that. At least, assuming by "cannot be" you mean "is not".
>not doing your own memory management is bad
No, it's not like saying that. Note how differently those claims are phrased.