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Re:MIT SICP Book in JavaScript by Sterm on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:45PM (#36839644)
Scheme is not a functional programming language. The last 2/3rds of sicp are possible only because you can mutate state.
Re:MIT SICP Book in JavaScript by Zambyte on Sunday July 23, 2023 @08:34PM (#36841577)
Actors in Elixir (and AFAIK the Actor Model in general) can mutate their internal state in response to receiving a message. It would probably be awkward to use actors in this way just to facilitate mutation though.
Re:MIT SICP Book in JavaScript by hinkley on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:21AM (#36843073)
Scheme is not a pure functional language. I think you need to check the rest of your notes.
Re:MIT SICP Book in JavaScript by andai on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:16PM (#36852136)
According to Let Over Lambda, Lisp is the least functional programming language ;)

https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap5.html

Re:MIT SICP Book in JavaScript by Sterm on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:55PM (#36854786)

    (define lol
      (let ((a 0))
        (lambda ()
          (set! a (+ a 1))
          a)))
Scheme is a functional programming language in the same way python is. The only difference is that it has tail call optimisation and the stack doesn't have an arbitrary limit on the number of function calls it can hold.