Re:Why Lisp?
by westoncb on Friday November 12, 2021 @07:02PM
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It just doesn’t come up that often though.
In most cases it’s not hard to narrow down which aspects of state are relevant; you really only need to preserve everything for rare exceedingly subtle/deep bugs, which is a special case not a general usage kinda thing—and yet this feature is often discussed as revolutionary for programming in general.
In most cases it’s not hard to narrow down which aspects of state are relevant; you really only need to preserve everything for rare exceedingly subtle/deep bugs, which is a special case not a general usage kinda thing—and yet this feature is often discussed as revolutionary for programming in general.