I love the quote. I believe it comes from one of the co-creators of Haskell, Simon Peyton Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Simon_Peyton_Jones).
Here's a short video of him with the quote around 3:15: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Simon-Peyton-Jones-Towards-a-Programming-Language-Nirvana/ Kevin Krouse 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. > > Does anyone recall who said something like that? > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
