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Because the goal of the course is to teach PURELY functional programming (watch the first video for a full definition of that) and Haskell is the most practical
by xwowsersx 10y ago
Because the goal of the course is to teach PURELY functional programming (watch the first video for a full definition of that) and Haskell is the most practical language in which to do pure FP AFAIK.
- nnq 10y agook, thanks. if this is your goal, then it seems like the right tool. monadic syntactic sugar helps too, so... ir fits.