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On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 14:40:18 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> You said "Computer Science has found that the right
> default for variables is to have them immutable". I don't think 
> "Rust == Computer Science". Otherwise their compiler would be 
> fast (Computer Science knows how to do fast compilers).

FWIW, proper computer scientists do not care about making fast 
compilers... They care about proving properties such as "why and 
when algorithm 1 is faster than algorithm 2 for data sets that 
approaches infinite size, given infinite memory"... Computer 
Science is the stepchild of Discrete Mathematics. Highly 
impractical, but very useful.