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mercurial on May 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elm at Prezi

Nobody can agree on the definition of a functional language. AFAIK, so-called "functional" languages like F# or O-Camel allow arbitrary side effects, unlike Haskell.

mtrimpe on May 30, 2013 [–]

That's why you'd call Haskell a 'purely functional' language.

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