A comparative study of state emulation in functional programming languages: student paper

Authors:
William Brick
Affiliations:
Trinity University
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods of emulating state in functional languages. We will examine the languages J, Scheme, and Haskell; the latter two will be representative of the Lisp and ML families, respectively. In specific, we will provide example code for state emulation in terms of object-orientation and compare this to object-oriented programming without use of state.