Re:How to Pick a Language
by miked on Friday January 23, 2009 @07:29AM
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>> It is a functional straightjacket like Haskell and Erlang (no side-effects), appealing to functional programmers.
Not so. Clojure has three different mechanisms for judicious use of side-effects, including Software Transactional Memory. But yes, side-effects must be quite explicit.
Not so. Clojure has three different mechanisms for judicious use of side-effects, including Software Transactional Memory. But yes, side-effects must be quite explicit.