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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by Zak on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:39AM (#1148055)
Any sufficiently complicated Haskell program will contain a call to unsafePerformIO.

But in all seriousness, you're quite right. Most interesting programs have some state in them, and the top-level logic that interacts with the UI will most likely be about viewing and updating that state.

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