nicholasbs
Nick
"In an imperative language, you have no guarantee that a simple function that should just crunch some numbers won't burn down your house..."
chimeracoder
Aditya Mukerjee
@nicholasbs Though, in a (purely) functional language, you have a guarantee that it won't do anything at all....
@nicholasbs Though, in a (purely) functional language, you have a guarantee that it won't do anything at all....
JorgeO
Jorge Ortiz
@nicholasbs @chimeracoder Actually, the ONLY thing a pure function can do is burn down your house, by overheating the CPU so it catches fire
@nicholasbs @chimeracoder Actually, the ONLY thing a pure function can do is burn down your house, by overheating the CPU so it catches fire
JorgeO
Jorge Ortiz
@chimeracoder @nicholasbs No type system I know of checks for CPU temperature side-effects :)
@chimeracoder @nicholasbs No type system I know of checks for CPU temperature side-effects :)