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I understood that Erlang didn't have to copy data between processes, even
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though it was "strictly message-passing", because everything was immutable.
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I'm not sure that the utility of immutable data structures really sank in until
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I read about Clojure's in 2009.
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Who'd have thought that learning about CouchDB in 2013 would just make me smile
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and nod?
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I read about Clojure's data structures in 2009.
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When I read about how CouchDB worked in 2013,
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I just smiled and nodded,
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recognising the structures and mechansims for evolving data.
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I learned that you can can design systems built around immutable data.
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I learned that you can design systems built around immutable data.
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Then I agreed to write a book chapter, and in trying to write a binary tree
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algorithm that mutated the tree in place, I got frustrated with how complicated

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