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November 15, 2015

Mutable Data Structures

Filed under: Data Structures,Functional Programming — Patrick Durusau @ 11:41 am

The best illustration of the dangers of mutable data structures I have found to date.

Mutable data structures and algorithms based upon them were necessary when computer memory was far more limited than it is today.*

Why are you still using mutable data structures and algorithms based on hardware that doesn’t exist anymore?

I first saw this in a tweet by the Software Exorcist.

* Granting there are cases, the CERN comes to mind, where the memory requirements for some applications exceed available memory. You aren’t working at the CERN are you?

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