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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-modi
by knz42 11y ago
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.
- innguest 11y agoSo 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.