I don't know if he was the first, but I heard it from Simon Peyton Jones first:
In an interview around 3:15: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Simon-Peyton-Jones-Towards-a-Programming-Language-Nirvana/ When answering a question around 10:40: http://oscon.blip.tv/file/324976 Kevin On Jan 5, 12:48 pm, "Mark Volkmann" <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to recall where I heard a quote that goes something like this. > > "If none of your functions have side effects then all you're doing is > heating up the processor." > > Of course you should avoid side effects in most of your functions, but > at least one of them needs to have a side effect for most > applications. > > Does anyone recall who said something like that? > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
