Here's a much longer talk that might be of interest to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kkTFx3-duc8
It's about moving (partly) from OOP to FP, discusses the advantages of the latter for design, mutation, but also the cases where OO is still useful. It's by Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala, but it should apply mostly as well to Racket. (I don't know Scala myself.) Laurent On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Eric Tanter <etan...@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > Hi, > > I remember that someone, some time ago (how precise!), posted on this list > a link to a couple of slides that nicely and concisely illustrate the > advantages of pure functions vs. impure ones when doing testing. > > I wasn't able to retrieve the post from Google or my inbox. If someone > remembers---at least its author should ;))--can you please send me the link? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- Éric > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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