[Haskell-beginners] University project - weird problem

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Donnerstag 22 April 2010 01:29:26 schrieb Renato dos Santos Leal:
> Yes, I'm using hugs. My teacher told me to use it and he corrects our
> projects using it, the differece between hugs and GHC, is it large?

hugs is an interpreter, GHC is a compiler. With GHC comes the interactive 
interpreter ghci, which is fairly similar to hugs.

>
> I don't know if I got what you meant with pure functions, but I'll keep
> studying.

pure is "not IO" (side-effect free; expressions of type IO a can have side 
effects, and it is much easier to reason about things if they don't have 
side effects).