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  • Not surprised. The Russian Wikipedia page on it is just a stub. The English one is actually longer.

    I can’t find any online introductions to it or compilers for it either, in English or написал по-Русски. Or Ukrainian for that matter, assuming I’d know it if I see it, although the Wikipedia page is longer.








  • Oh, well I can agree with that.

    You can like the idea behind functional programming while believing that any application is in the end about side effects and therefore a purely functional application impossible.

    It’s a bit of a tangent, but if you’re doing something completely deterministic and non-interactive, like computing a digit of pi, it’s great in practice as well. I use Haskell semi-regularly for that kind of thing.

    You could argue printing the output is a side effect, but is a side effect followed by termination really “side”?