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I don't feel that this post is fair. You can't say "we can't do solve real world tasks with functional programming because Haskell isn't practical." I'm sure t
by twymer 16y ago
I don't feel that this post is fair. You can't say "we can't do solve real world tasks with functional programming because Haskell isn't practical."
I'm sure this isn't a fair analysis either, but I think it's an accepted belief that pure functional languages don't fit with how the world works. That doesn't mean that functional languages with side effects (multi-paradigm is probably the correct term) like Lisp, given the recent rise of Clojure, or F# can't be used in the real world.
- sid0 16y ago> That doesn't mean that functional languages with side effects Haskell has side-effects too, you know. The point of Haskell is not to eliminate side-effects entirely, but to have a static separation between functions with side-effects and functions without through the type system.