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Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by moocowtruck on Saturday March 02, 2019 @10:09PM (#19292457)
haskell is great at being imperative too look at chris done's work on xml parsing haskell and c; nice example
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Re:Functional Programming in OCaml by robert_tweed on Sunday March 03, 2019 @07:43AM (#19294186)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I don't know Haskell, but I had a look for the parser you mentioned and it does appear at first glance to use a fairly imperative-looking style, with loops and pointers into mutable data:

https://github.com/ocramz/xeno/blob/master/src/Xeno/DOM.hs

I would be interested in an analysis of this code from anyone who actually does know Haskell in case I'm misreading it.

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