Here is a koan. Shared mutable state is evil. So functional programming language...

		sanxiyn on May 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Drop the distinction between mutable and immutable... Here is a koan. Shared mutable state is evil. So functional programming languages thought: let's have no mutable state. So Rust thought: let's have no sharing of state. Rust is not a functional programming language. It is a different approach to the same problem.