[Haskell-cafe] Why purely in haskell?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Derek Elkins wrote:
 > A shorter and lighter and and also interesting and entertaining read is:
 > 
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/haskell-retrospective/index.htm

Just read it, quoting:

`Tony Hoare’s comment: “I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed”`

LOL! Very good stuff

If Haskell wasn't pure, I would not spent so much time trying to bend my 
over-imperative mind to it. I had it with impure languages, way to 
tricky. Those languages were nice when I was young & reckless :)

But I'm amazed that impure (albeit strong) languages like LISP and 
Scheme are still used for projects... I mean, in Scheme you can "set!" 
the addition operator to become a multiplication operator at runtime, 
modifying global behavior... Now that's a side effect, C/C++ is nothing 
compared to that! So I guess that with such great power comes great 
responsibility?

Peter