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There was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek article a while back saying "C has no side effects" with the premise being That "when people say C, they really mean CPP, b

• ackfoobar 4y ago
  http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functional http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio... "The C language is purely functional" and "Haskell is the world's finest imperative programming language" can blow some minds.
  • aidenn0 4y ago
    That's the one. There's also: > “Haskell is a dynamically-typed, interpreted language.” From https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
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    • goto11 4y ago
      The context is she is using Haskell type declarations as if it was a regular programming language. Arguable the type declarations are interpreted, and dynamically typed in the sense that there is no static type checking before the interpretation.
• marcosdumay 4y ago
  Hum... You meant to say that the C compiler is pure. And well, yes, it is. Even when you include the compiler itself, instead of only the preprocessor. You can notice on the GP's description that Haskell will generate those programs at runtime. The Haskell code is running on the same level as the C compiler, but at a very different time.