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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