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

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Date 2011-05-25 08:38 +1000
Subject Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2045.1306276690.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Deeyana <d.awlberg@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.)

How is this fundamentally different from Python calling into C?

Chris Angelico

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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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