On Jan 5, 12:48 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.
Ha! Well, that's a snarky quote for this newsgroup -- of course the program should do some IO in order to be useful, but that's really the only part that requires side effects from the programmer's perspective. (Of course the hardware implements the programming model using side effects!) mfh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
