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greendestiny on Feb 2, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I lost my faith (in Lisp)

State in procedural languages has more to do with side effects than nice syntax for it. This article has a nice description of how why explicit state is good in procedural languages sometimes: http://prog21.dadgum.com/3.html

curi on Feb 2, 2008 [–]

lisp can do side effects. as i demonstrated. what's the problem?

tjr on Feb 2, 2008 | [–]

"... some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state." --Guy Steele

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