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slimygrapes
4y ago
Which means you are conceiving a strawman to mock. The point is “no side effects other than IO” is a useful observation to make about how a language feels to use and the kinds of programs it encourages one to write. Whether V is a good ex
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slimygrapes
4y ago
The criticism re: purity is silly. It can still be useful to design a language that is “mostly pure” because you’re mostly not trying to fuck your self over. For example OCaml is “mostly pure” and it’s tremendously beneficial in terms of wr