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Imperative > pure functional programming

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-23 3:58

Who would intentionally write code where you can't randomly access memory?  People who prefer O(n log n) over O(n) algorithms.

Name: Anonymous 2010-05-23 4:30

It seems you have been brainwashed by Clojure morons. Even looking at the most pure functional languages, Haskell has mutable arrays via monads1 and Clean has mutable arrays via uniqueness typing2.

1 http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Arrays .
2 http://clean.cs.ru.nl/CleanExtra/report20/chapter4/s44.html

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