Re:What are potential disadvantages of functional programming?
by doug1001 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:09PM
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well i love fp, but the reality is that fp is not even an afterthought in the libraries that underlie numerical computation--most significantly, BLAS, LAPACK. Those libraries rely entirely on mutable data structures.
it has very little to do with their age--fact is these libraries are continuously updated (last major re-write for LAPACK was 2008; what's more, fp is not new, it was a well-known paradigm when, say MKL was conceived (2003), but apparently even the most cleverly designed persistent data structures (eg, Scala's vector) aren't enough.
it has very little to do with their age--fact is these libraries are continuously updated (last major re-write for LAPACK was 2008; what's more, fp is not new, it was a well-known paradigm when, say MKL was conceived (2003), but apparently even the most cleverly designed persistent data structures (eg, Scala's vector) aren't enough.