>Functional languages are a terrible mismatch for this How? That is precisely what I use haskell for, and it has been by far the least terrible programming ex

>Functional languages are a terrible mismatch for this How? That is precisely what I use haskell for, and it has been by far the least terrible programming experience of my life. >'No side effects' is great for certain types of coding That comment shows a very superficial understanding of functional programming. Side effects are never the whole point of what you are doing. You are assuming "no side effects" means you are limited in some way. That is incorrect.