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		codesnik 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980) Well, erlang and elixir operate on almost exclusively immutable data, in addition to message passing between "processes". They are more strict than most other languages in that regard.

Zambyte 3 months ago [–]

Mutation occurs at the actor level. Their state is mutated by changing how they respond to future messages.

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