Why do our programs need to read input and write output?

Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by 1_2__4 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:48PM (#15428899)

You seem to be just playing with semantics and claiming it offers a new way of thinking about I/O.

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Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by Gabriel439 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:54PM (#15428927)

I don't want to think about I/O. That's the point

I want to focus on connecting pure code together without thinking about the details of how that happens. I want this for the same reason that I don't want to think about manually allocating registers, managing memory, or caring about evaluation order

Also, like I mentioned, traditional I/O can't import functions or types, so this is strictly more powerful

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Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output? by tree_of_item on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:53PM (#15428920)

"Playing with semantics" is a good description of programming language theory.

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