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Sunday, January 9, 2005

Haskell's "awkward squad"

Adam Langley on Haskell: "A language which calls IO, exceptions and external calls the "awkward squad" was built on the wrong foundations I'm afraid."

I've never understood how people try to do I/O in a purely functional language. (Purely) functional languages are by definition side-effect free, while I/O is itself a side effect.

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