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lilyball
on March 27, 2013
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Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem
You can avoid mutating data in C if you want to. People just don't, because mutation is so convenient and fast.
stelonix
on March 27, 2013
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Yes, but standard C has
no way
to tell the compiler a variable is immutable (immutability != constness), so unless you go non-standard (and very verbose at it) Erlang is still a better tool for the job.
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