[Haskell-cafe] Can you do everything without shared-memory concurrency?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 8, at 21:00, Timothy Goddard wrote:
> I am not a mathematician, I can't prove it, but I can't think of  
> circumstances
> where I would need to put mutable references in a data structure  
> except where
> the language and compiler can't handle immutable structures  
> efficiently.


The status registers of memory-mapped devices come to mind.

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