Clojure creator Rich Hickey describes traditional imperative programming as "PLace Oriented Programming (PLOP)" when talking about how Clojure's approach is better for certain kinds of problems.
I agree with his point, and Clojure is my favorite programming language, but the computer itself is place-oriented. It runs on reading from and writing to locations in memory, and extracting maximum efficiency from it requires direct control over that memory.
I agree with his point, and Clojure is my favorite programming language, but the computer itself is place-oriented. It runs on reading from and writing to locations in memory, and extracting maximum efficiency from it requires direct control over that memory.