Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)
by coldtea on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:15PM
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Perfectly safe systems like planes, missiles, space missions etc. are 99% done in imperative languages such as C and Ada.
Not Haskell and not even Lisp.
The last thing you want from a perfectly safe system is some lazyness smartness in the compiler hitting at the wrong time and affecting execution time, memory use etc, or things like GC pauses.
Not Haskell and not even Lisp.
The last thing you want from a perfectly safe system is some lazyness smartness in the compiler hitting at the wrong time and affecting execution time, memory use etc, or things like GC pauses.