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Re^2: Paul Graham on Great Hackers

by hardburn (Abbot)
on Jul 29, 2004 at 19:24 UTC ( [id://378474]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Paul Graham on Great Hackers
in thread Paul Graham on Great Hackers

When functional language purists talk about how a language can completely lack of side effects, they tend to shrink back when you ask them about I/O. Yes, there are ways of dealing with it (monads, which are beyond my current understanding, and so will only mention them for completeness), but there is no getting around the fact that I/O is a side effect.

Update: One grammour mistake fixed. 1.56 * 107 more to go.

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