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    1 month ago

    Oh, well I can agree with that.

    You can like the idea behind functional programming while believing that any application is in the end about side effects and therefore a purely functional application impossible.

    It’s a bit of a tangent, but if you’re doing something completely deterministic and non-interactive, like computing a digit of pi, it’s great in practice as well. I use Haskell semi-regularly for that kind of thing.

    You could argue printing the output is a side effect, but is a side effect followed by termination really “side”?