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Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors

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From Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid>
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Subject Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors
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On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:39:15 -0700, asandroq wrote:

> On May 24, 12:27 am, Deeyana <d.awlb...@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim. Scheme does not come OOTB
>> with any suitable libraries for host interop and though it can make
>> calls to C libraries, doing so is awkward and involves difficulties
>> with the impedance mismatch between Scheme's data structures and C's
>> char *, void *, int, double, array, etc. types. To top it off, C lacks
>> automatic memory management, which means you'll have to concern
>> yourself with manually disposing of allocated data structures used in
>> interop. (Or, worse, things will get garbage collected by the Scheme
>> runtime that the Scheme code no longer references, but the C library is
>> still using, and bam! SIGSEGV.)
>
> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

On your part, asandroq.

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Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 15:47 -0700
  Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-05-23 02:29 +0000
    Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors asandroq <asandroq@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 00:52 -0700
      Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-05-23 22:27 +0000
        Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors asandroq <asandroq@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 13:39 -0700
          Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Deeyana <d.awlberg@hotmail.invalid> - 2011-05-25 00:03 +0000
        Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-25 08:38 +1000
  Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-05-23 10:51 +0200
    Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-05-23 15:39 +0200
      Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2011-05-23 19:36 +0300

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