[Haskell-cafe] Why purely in haskell?

[Dougal Stanton]

On 09/01/2008, Yu-Teh Shen <shenyute at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got question about why haskell insist to be a purely FL. I mean is
> there any feature which is only support by pure?

Have a look at the ueber-retrospective on Haskell, fifty-five pages of
all the history and motivation one could possibly want.

<http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/>

It's interesting reading, I promise! ;-)

D.
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