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Re:Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix by 4ad on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:10PM (#4737745)
This only works if you are a top-down thinker. Many people are bottom-up thinkers.
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Re:Learn a Programming Language Faster by Copying Unix by anothermachine on Sunday November 04, 2012 @03:25PM (#4740902)
Explain?

With "do" and the coincidental naming of "return", and IORefs if you insist, you can write imperative bottom-up code in Haskell.

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