Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Haskell in 100 Seconds" video.

  1. I use functional constructs heavily, and I like languages that support this (Python, LISP, JavaScript). But a pure-functional language just seems like a waste of time.
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  2.  @EidosX_  This is why pure-functional programming doesn’t make any sense. The real world is innately procedural.
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  3. Dijkstra called it “the language of tomorrow to solve the problems of yesterday”.
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  4. That would be a side-effect ...
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  5. So where does it put the entire Universe, exactly? Given that “Universe” means “everything there is”, where is the machine located whose state represents all these Universes?
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  6.  @EidosX_  Which doesn’t make any sense to have only a teentsy bits of procedural code at the edges with pure-functional code in the middle. That’s just pretending to be functional.
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  7.  @EidosX_  So, does Haskell have I/O (i.e. procedurality) or not?
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