Re:Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem
by eridius on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:34PM
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You can avoid mutating data in C if you want to. People just don't, because mutation is so convenient and fast.
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Re:Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem
by stelonix on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @06:35PM
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Yes, but standard C has no way to tell the compiler a variable is immutable (immutability != constness), so unless you go non-standard (and very verbose at it) Erlang is still a better tool for the job.