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by Sterm 1057 days ago
Scheme is not a functional programming language. The last 2/3rds of sicp are possible only because you can mutate state.
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Zambyte 1057 days ago
Actors in Elixir (and AFAIK the Actor Model in general) can mutate their internal state in response to receiving a message. It would probably be awkward to use actors in this way just to facilitate mutation though.
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hinkley 1057 days ago
Scheme is not a pure functional language. I think you need to check the rest of your notes.
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andai 1056 days ago
According to Let Over Lambda, Lisp is the least functional programming language ;)

https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap5.html

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Sterm 1056 days ago 

    (define lol
      (let ((a 0))
        (lambda ()
          (set! a (+ a 1))
          a)))
Scheme is a functional programming language in the same way python is. The only difference is that it has tail call optimisation and the stack doesn't have an arbitrary limit on the number of function calls it can hold.
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