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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by lelanthran on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:58AM (#26302783)
> Since functional languages are based on the mathematical idea of function application, this is a weird request.

Well, imperative languages are based on the idea of a turing machine, but they look nothing like one.

Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by ivanbakel on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:14AM (#26302916)
>imperative languages are based on the idea of a turing machine

In what way? I wouldn't count executing sequential instructions as a "the idea of a turing machine", and no major imperative language has programs which have only finitely many states along with an infinite memory space that is both code and data.