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2 stories tagged immutability, newest first.

Screenshot of boragonul.com: How I fell in love with Erlang

How I fell in love with Erlang (boragonul.com)

366 points by asabil 11 months ago | 215 comments

A personal blog post recounting the author's path from Commodore-64 BASIC to discovering and loving Erlang, starting with how mutable assignment like X = X + 1 confused him.

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Screenshot of twitter.com: John Carmack on mutable variables

John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com)

447 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 523 comments

A tweet by John Carmack advocating single assignment and avoiding variable reassignment, noting that in C/C++ making variables const by default is good practice.

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#immutability on Hacker News

How I fell in love with Erlang(boragonul.com)

John Carmack on mutable variables(twitter.com)

How I fell in love with Erlang (boragonul.com)

John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com)