On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to recall where I heard a quote that goes something like this.
>
> "If none of your functions have side effects then all you're doing is
> heating up the processor."
>
> Of course you should avoid side effects in most of your functions, but
> at least one of them needs to have a side effect for most
> applications.
>
> Does anyone recall who said something like that?

This is a little more specific, but the only thing that came to mind:

Q: I wonder what (reduce + natural-numbers) should yield
A: a very warm computer

http://clojure-log.n01se.net/date/2008-10-18.html#10:30a

--Chouser

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