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Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha)

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From Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
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On 2014-09-21, Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> ...
> So SML is an imperative language and a functional language then.
> These days one tends to avoid that, because with mutable state, you
> don't get referential transparency, and without referential
> transparency, you miss out on some benefits of functional languages;
> but in earlier times people did not know how to live without mutable
> state, so they had mutable state in functional languages.

Those people haven't gone away, and in fact there is more of them.
So the functional languages that dropped mutable state simply
dropped users. :)

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Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) "Nils M Holm" <nmh@t3x.org> - 2014-09-20 02:19 -0400
  Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-09-21 13:40 +0000
    Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-09-21 14:28 +0000

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