Re:Why do our programs need to read input and write output?
by JetSpiegel on Sunday October 08, 2017 @03:10PM
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Isn't that just pushing the side-effects to the runtime? What does it achieve?
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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 @03:13PM
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It achieves the goal of making your code side-effect free. The explicit goal of these sorts of projects is to push the side-effects to the very edge of the stack.