This is a good write up. Thank you for it. My experience with Haskell only comes from university and the focus there was primarily on the pure side of the code.

This is a good write up. Thank you for it. My experience with Haskell only comes from university and the focus there was primarily on the pure side of the code. I'll have a look at how Haskell deals with the pure/inpure split for some real-world tasks. The Lisp way of doing it just seems weird to me, too ad hoc, not really structured.