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Is Haskell/Clojure actually unsuited for dynamic systems such as particle simulation?
I've been told in previous questions that functional programming languages are unsuited for dynamic systems such as a physics engine, mainly because it's costly to mutate objects. How realistic is ...
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Is Clojure a 3GL or a 4GL?
A bit of background (in case I'm mistaken)...
I think I understand that (it's an oversimplification):
manually entering codes into memory (or on a punchcard) is "first generation language"
using ...
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Determinism of functions using PRNG in Clojure and functional languages
I'm a bit surprised by a sentence found in the book "Clojure Programming" (1st [and only as I write this!?] edition), page 78:
It should be obvious that it's impossible to deterministically test a
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Why can't we write nested shorthand functions in Clojure?
I tried to evaluate a Clojure expression with nested shorthand functions today, and it wouldn't let me.
The expression was:
(#(+ % (#(+ % (* % %)) %)) 5) ; sorry for the eye bleed
The output was:
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1answer
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Does Clojure have the continuation?
I started programming with Python. When using python, concepts like coroutine, closure made me really confusing.
Now I think I know them some superficial level, but I want to get the "enlightement" ...
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Scala or Clojure Functional Programming best practices
I did a lot of self-study coding, got some experience with Parallel Programming Models: Actors, Software Transactional Memory, Data Flow.
When I am trying to apply these architectures to real life - ...
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Language that can statically ensure a map's fields are present
If data is simple and objects are complex, I'm curious if there are any existing statically typed languages that would be able to augment(?) a map type into a type with guaranteed fields. I realize ...
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Why do some functional languages need software transactional memory?
Functional languages, by definition, should not maintain state variables. Why, then, do Haskell, Clojure, and others provide software transactional memory (STM) implementations? Is there a conflict ...
