[Shootout-list] Organisation for numerical tests

[José Bollo]

Le mercredi 4 Mai 2005 17:20, Isaac Gouy a écrit :
> --- José Bollo <jose.bollo@tele2.fr> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 4 Mai 2005 14:40, Isaac Gouy a écrit :
> > > Are there problems not dominated by array access?
> >
> > yes
> >
> > > Are there problems not dominated by io?
> >
> > yes
> >
> > > Are there problems were a good approach doesn't require destructive
> >
> > update?
> >
> > ???
>
> Pure functional languages don't do destructive assignment - create new
> values instead.

is it a functional languages shootout ?

functional languages can do what imperatives languages do.

i dont understand the NO DESTRUCTIVE ASSIGNMENT requirement.

jb