a Haskell program is the same as a Python program Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. -

a Haskell program is the same as a Python program Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. -- Perlis:54 https://web.archive.org/web/20120806032011/http://pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120806032011/http://pu.inf.uni... Haskell is syntactic sugar on top of the Von Neumann architecture (likewise Python, Rust, COBOL, Smalltalk, etc.) The Von Neumann architecture is inherently stateful. Anything with volatile memory is. Functional programming is an idiom, not a technology. To the degree functional programming is a technology, it is one for analog computers. Good luck. My time has been wasted trying to be clever.