Thanks for all the wisdom in this thread! :) On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 11:55:36 PM UTC+2, Eric Entin wrote: > > Yes, thanks José. :) > > On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 5:54:40 PM UTC-4, José Valim wrote: >> >> That's definitely fair to say, Ben, though I will have to say that as far >>> as other functional languages go, Elixir *looks* pretty imperative. :) >>> >> >> You probably mean to say Elixir is *sequential*. Imperative programming >> definition focuses a lot on changing the program state, which is something >> we minimize in Elixir. For example, using for-loops for mutating an array >> is an imperative construct, in Elixir we would use Enum.map or recursion, >> which are on the functional/declarative side. >> >>
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