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

Deeyana d.awlberg at hotmail.invalid
Tue May 24 20:03:17 EDT 2011


On Tue, 24 May 2011 13:39:15 -0700, asandroq wrote:

> On May 24, 12:27 am, Deeyana <d.awlb... at hotmail.invalid> 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 so is awkward and involves difficulties
>> with the impedance mismatch between Scheme's data structures and C's
>> char *, void *, int, double, array, etc. types. To top it off, C lacks
>> automatic memory management, which means you'll have to concern
>> yourself with manually disposing of allocated data structures used in
>> interop. (Or, worse, things will get garbage collected by the Scheme
>> runtime that the Scheme code no longer references, but the C library is
>> still using, and bam! SIGSEGV.)
>
> Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

On your part, asandroq.



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