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Computer use has shifted from calculating tables for ballistic missiles to manipulating gigantic amounts of state. And (pure) FP is the answer because it doesn'
by tobiasu 14y ago
Computer use has shifted from calculating tables for ballistic missiles to manipulating gigantic amounts of state. And (pure) FP is the answer because it doesn't have the ability to manipulate state?
- Peaker 14y agoOn the contrary, pure FP excels at manipulating state. The name "pure FP" is a bit of a misnomer, because what people really mean by it is that instead of "side effects" we have "typed effects". The effects always appear in the types of our computations, so they're not really "side" effects anymore, they're a central part of the computation.