[Haskell-cafe] I'd like start with Haskell, but...

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Dan,

Sunday, December 17, 2006, 5:46:57 PM, you wrote:

> sum <- newIORef 0

> why in the world would you write a  summation function like that?

gui/db libs are imperative ones and using them you need to deal with a lot
of mutable values. this example shows that programming with mutable data is
less better done in C than in Haskell - imperative language has a lot of
syntax sugar which allows automatic generation of all those
readIORef/writeIORef calls (or their equivalents)

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