Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)
by knz42 on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:50AM
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The functional runtime (i.e. not compiler) is built upon an imperative foundation. This is necessarily so as long as hardware computer are built upon state-modifying processors and random access, in-place updatable memories.
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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)
by innguest on Monday June 22, 2015 @09:56AM
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So what? It's Turing-complete so it can simulate any non-Von Neumann machine that can compute. And in fact it does so very well, see Forth, Lisp, and other languages from different paradigms for which there are dedicated processors.
If you use an abstraction (your job as a programmer) the innards of the processor should approach inconsequential.