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Re:Elm at Prezi by mercurial on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:41AM (#5791115)
Nobody can agree on the definition of a functional language. AFAIK, so-called "functional" languages like F# or O-Camel allow arbitrary side effects, unlike Haskell.
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Re:Elm at Prezi by mtrimpe on Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:18AM (#5791455)
That's why you'd call Haskell a 'purely functional' language.
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