On 17 Dec 2009, at 10:04, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > Please keep in mind that it is almost literally the speech that I give > to my friends/colleagues when they ask me why am I so excited about > Clojure. I did it many times now and I have quickly learned that > saying "persistent data structures" gets misinterpreted by every > single person as "something you can save to file [as XML/binary]", > i.e. serialization. > So the funny thing is: by changing my tune and being imprecise, I > communicate the basic idea much better now :-).
I note that Haskellers don't refer to their data structures as "persistent", despite the fact that lazy evaluation means they get persistence of all data structures 'for free'. They seem to use the rather vague "purely functional data structure". Martin -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
