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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by bjz_ on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:54AM (#18844475)
> I used to point out to people that functional programming can be imperative and nobody (I do mean nobody I spoke to about this) would believe me on this.

Interesting. Monadic Haskell can be quite imperative if you want it to be, as can SML or OCaml. Scheme and Lisp have imperative parts too.

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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by grenadier21 on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:56AM (#18844753)
Haskell's IO is literally the idea of sequencing commands reified, though, so the comparison is a bit apples-to-oranges.
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Re:Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019 by macintux on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:55AM (#18844750)
Ditto Erlang.
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