[Haskell-cafe] Functional vs Imperative

Sebastian Sylvan sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 18:44:02 EDT 2005


On 9/16/05, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:38:35PM +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> > Hello Dhaemon,
> >
> > Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 5:45:52 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > D> everywhere... Why use a function language if you use it as an imperative
> > D> one?(i.e. most of the apps in http://haskell.org/practice.html)
> >
> > because most complex parts of code are really functional and Haskell
> > give ability to express them shortly and reliably
> 
> Also, in many ways haskell is a 'better impertive language than
> imperative ones'. the ability to treat IO actions as values and build up
> computations functionally means your imperative code can end up being
> much more concise, not to mention typesafe.
>         John
> 

What was that slogan? "Haskell - the finest imperative language in the world"?

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