Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors

2011-05-22 Thread Deeyana
On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:47:53 -0700, Xah Lee wrote: > this is important but i think most lispers and functional programers > still don't know it. > > Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors. > > 〈Guy Steele on Parallel Programing〉 > http://xahlee.org/comp/Guy_Steele_p

Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors

2011-05-23 Thread Deeyana
On Mon, 23 May 2011 00:52:07 -0700, asandroq wrote: > On May 23, 4:29 am, Deeyana wrote: >> >> You might be interested in Clojure, then. Lists are more abstracted, >> like in Scheme, and vectors and also dictionaries/maps and sets are >> first class citizens along si

Re: Functional Programing: stop using recursion, cons. Use map & vectors

2011-05-24 Thread Deeyana
On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:39:15 -0700, asandroq wrote: > On May 24, 12:27 am, Deeyana wrote: >> >> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim. Scheme does not come OOTB >> with any suitable libraries for host interop and though it can make >> calls to C libraries, doing