"I believe it was developed as a research programming language, and apocryphally, they didn’t have a way to get code in and out of the system. They couldn’t fig

"I believe it was developed as a research programming language, and apocryphally, they didn’t have a way to get code in and out of the system. They couldn’t figure out how to create a pure functional I/O system until they came up with the I/O monad." Uhm. No. No one has ever written a program that doesn't have some I/O facility. How would you even know if it ran? I can get saying something like this over a few beers. But if you are going to speak or publish, maybe just go ahead and Google it? This is the fourth result from Googling the phrase: "Haskell before IO monad": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17002119/haskell-pre-monadic-i-o http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17002119/haskell-pre-mona...